Bug Report

Request: remove the background image (horizontal lines) [#13636]

2601:0601:4000:1b30: Request: remove the background image (horizontal lines) (2023-02-26 23:14) [#12211]

I use accessibility software for reading webpages and it interacts terribly with background images like the horizontal lines present behind the text of most webpages here. I can read this stuff but it's really, really not fun.

This site would be infinitely more useable if its background was simply a solid color (e.g. white)

Malcolm: Re: Request: remove the background image (horizontal lines) (2023-03-01 10:40) [#12212]

It seems there are various slightly involved/technical things you can do yourself, depending on which browser you are using. The background image is on the third line of a file called sl.css, which starts like this:

.mainpage {
background-color:#fbfbfb;
background-image:url(/images/background.gif);
}

It should be possible to edit this file yourself and create a local copy, that is then used by your browser. You would just need to delete the line with "background-image:url(/..."

Details here:

Chrome:

[ext] https://superuser.com/a/1694703

Firefox

[ext] https://superuser.com/a/319322

From a user perspective it would be nice if SL offered this as a user setting, but that would require a bit of work from the site maintainer.

Still, I wonder, maybe the best and simplest fix for this would be for the site maintainer to simply remove the background image. I don't think anyone is really invested in keeping it.

xela: Re: Request: remove the background image (horizontal lines) (2023-03-01 01:54) [#12215]

I'm sorry to hear you're having this issue. Thanks for reporting it.

Would you mind adding more details, e.g. the name of the software you're using?

I'm a bit puzzled because I thought screen readers were supposed to ignore the CSS background images. Or are you using something different from a screen reader?

85.23.37.107: Re: Request: remove the background image (horizontal lines) (2023-03-02 08:30) [#12216]

The background image interacts funny also with Google Chrome in iOS (don't know about other phones/OSs). Every time I try to copy paste something from Senseis, the background image hogs the long touch gesture and suggests saving the background.gif instead of interacting with the text and the selection!

The touch must be pixel perfect for the selection to work and so it takes about 1-3minutes for me to copy anything, argh :)