Navbar font

[cesy]

Title:
Navbar font

Area:
navbar

Summary:
Navbar font should be independent of other journal style details.

Description:
One of the most useful features of the navbar is being able to hit "style: mine" or "style: light" very easily when faced with an unreadable journal. However, this is defeated when the journal style customizations have also affected the navbar, and I can't read it to find the link. Therefore I suggest that the font face, font size and font colour in the navbar should be independent of customizations made to the rest of the journal style.

Possibly they could be made customizable by the journal owner, or possibly the navbar should be entirely controlled by the reader, but either way, changing the display of the navbar should be a deliberate step rather than a side-effect of trying to change the font on the rest of your journal.

Poll #754

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 36

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Should be implemented as-is.
27 (75.0%)

Should be implemented with changes.
8 (22.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (2.8%)

Comments

[laitaine]

Ah sorry, on further digging, I don't think there is such an option, I think I was merging a number of features in my sleepy brain. Sorry! Having the option to force the navbar to appear in one's own style would be shiny.

Another option would be to have images in the navbar so it would be:

[x] view page in my style
[x] view page in style=light

Then even on pages with light grey text on a lighter grey background in stupidly-small-pt text, you still have the little icon to click (and if this is a feature you use regularly, and it sounds like it would be) you would know which button did what you wanted.

I think making it so that changing the navbar is deliberate would be a bit of a pain in the arse (it already is because you already have to set a number of settings all over again) but that's liveable with if it solves the accessibility problems. But I'm not sure it'll really solve the problems because there will still be people who figure out how to change it (it won't be *that* hard) and tutorials will pop up all over the place to help those who want to but can't figure out how. Of course, this doesn't mean that everyone on DW will rush and change their navbar and deliberately make it impossible to read, but there will still be journals every so often where you will have a problem.

I agree something needs to be done, but the best solution will work in ALL cases for those that need it and should not take functionality away from those who don't.