Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 61712
calculation of high-contrast text selection colors not working
Last modified: 2014-04-11 15:04:23 UTC
write a piece of text (black on white). select it. text will be shoen in white color. background in black. yellow background will yield white on blue selection. etc. but: white text on white background will yield black on black selections. light grey on white (and vice versa) will yield almost black on black. result: selected text is not readable. not selected text is not readable,too. but the first is avoidable.
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Which settings (system - theme - and OOo - Tools - Options - Accessibility) do you have? In OOo, the selection simply inverts the color scheme and has no fix background color like the default blue selection background on Windows. So that the readablness of a text will remain the same whatever it is selected or not : white on white is unreadable and light grey on white quite unreadable. Selecting the text doesn't change this. En enhancement would be to use the same selection background as the system. Is it what you mean?
I'm using the classic windows scheme with the option autodetect contrast mode ON (Kontrastdarstellungsmodes des Betriebssystems...) the enhancement would be to use always a pair of high contrast colors for selected text regardless of the low contrast of the original text colors. Maybe by using a fixed background color while varying the foreground color. It certainly is not a defect.
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This Issue requires more information ('needmoreinfo'), but has not been updated within the last year. Please provide feedback as requested and re-test with the the latest version of OpenOffice - the problem(s) may already be addressed. You can download Apache OpenOffice 3.4.1 from http://www.openoffice.org/download Please report back the outcome of your testing, so this Issue may be closed or progressed as necessary - otherwise the issue may be Resolved as Invalid in the future.
I retested this issue with Apache OpenOffice 4.0 on Windows 7. The contrast in the selection depends on the theme set in Windows. Result: white text on a white background remains invisible when selected, except with the themes High Contrast #1, High Contrast #2 and High Contrast Black. Changing the background for black text from white to black visually changes the text colour to white; this seems to be the consequence of using the text colour "Automatic". To get truly black on black text, you need to change the text colour to black in a second step. The resulting text can be read in all the high-contrast themes (the three mentioned above and High Contrast White) but not in other themes. This seems primarily an issue of accessible authoring rather than office functionality.
Created attachment 81267 [details] Zipped ODF text file with several colour combinations and screenshots. The attachment shows the effect of different themes on Windows 7; see my last comment.
IMHO the only enhancement here is to prevent user from formatting text and background in the same color. AOO410m16(Build:9762) - Rev. 1585426 2014-04-07 10:29:13 (Mo, 07 Apr 2014) Win 7