G8racingfool
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Okay, this one outta stump ya'll for a bit.
Got a residential customer. The guy is 98 years old and still uses a computer every day and does more on it than most people half his age. He has a problem though; he has late-stage macular degeneration which means he can barely see things on the screen anymore I've got him set up with EoA settings and a Yellow-on-Blue color scheme that works well for him except in one, small case: Email.
The guy loves reading his email. He currently uses Outlook 2010 for email which works fairly well because it fits in with the Windows color scheme I've set up. However, because everybody needs to make email super fancy nowdays, he's getting a lot of emails with HTML formatting which is generally fine except; some email designers think it's a great idea to force a white background color on their emails but won't force a text color. As a result, we end up with a yellow-on-white email that's virtually impossible for me to read let alone him. My first thought was to disable content formatting in Outlook which takes care of the background alright. Problem there is, all of the nasty html, scripts and everything else are now displayed in plain text which means emails become a jumbled mess to read.
So far, I haven't found any other settings that will allow me to just turn off elements of email formatting without clearing all of it. So my question is: is there a way to force the background of all emails to be clear/non-existant or, if that's not an option, is there another email client that is more friendly to folks who can't hardly see? I told him I'd explore every avenue possible before giving up and saying it's just not do-able so if anyone here has any ideas throw them out here.
Got a residential customer. The guy is 98 years old and still uses a computer every day and does more on it than most people half his age. He has a problem though; he has late-stage macular degeneration which means he can barely see things on the screen anymore I've got him set up with EoA settings and a Yellow-on-Blue color scheme that works well for him except in one, small case: Email.
The guy loves reading his email. He currently uses Outlook 2010 for email which works fairly well because it fits in with the Windows color scheme I've set up. However, because everybody needs to make email super fancy nowdays, he's getting a lot of emails with HTML formatting which is generally fine except; some email designers think it's a great idea to force a white background color on their emails but won't force a text color. As a result, we end up with a yellow-on-white email that's virtually impossible for me to read let alone him. My first thought was to disable content formatting in Outlook which takes care of the background alright. Problem there is, all of the nasty html, scripts and everything else are now displayed in plain text which means emails become a jumbled mess to read.
So far, I haven't found any other settings that will allow me to just turn off elements of email formatting without clearing all of it. So my question is: is there a way to force the background of all emails to be clear/non-existant or, if that's not an option, is there another email client that is more friendly to folks who can't hardly see? I told him I'd explore every avenue possible before giving up and saying it's just not do-able so if anyone here has any ideas throw them out here.