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2024 character sheet inaccessible for some visual impairments

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My group is having significant problems because of sheet unreadability: background texture, grey-on-black text, etc. Having the option of the pretty sheet is nice, but for usability please implement a plain white-text-on-black and a plain black-text-on-white version.
Howdy! Thank you so much for this suggestion. While we look at implementing different views for the D&D 2024 sheet, if it would be at all helpful, we know many of our users work with the browser extension Stylus to customize their Roll20 experience in our supported browsers. So, some of our team took a moment to put together an approximation of Light Mode for the 2024 Character Sheet that will work with the extension. While it's not an exact look at what we're intending for Light Mode's design, we're hopeful it can be of use to folks who need it asap while we continue the work: Here's the extension for Chrome and Firefox . Here's the code to get it working with Stylus. And we put together a quick how-to video if you're looking for help.  While I know it is not exactly what you're looking for, I just wanted to drop this here in case it could be of help at all!
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"Grey on black" and "Light grey on white" (or even worse, grey-on-grey) are horrible choices for any text display. It may be more aesthetically pleasing for some tastes, but the primary purpose of text is to convey information; aesthetics need to be secondary at best. Also, about one in 12 men and one in 200 women have&nbsp; red-green color blindness, therefore shapes or symbols are more appropriate than colors when choosing condition indicators. <a href="https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/#:~:text=There%20is%20general%20agreement%20that,10%2D11%25%20of%20men" rel="nofollow">https://www.colourblindawareness.org/colour-blindness/types-of-colour-blindness/#:~:text=There%20is%20general%20agreement%20that,10%2D11%25%20of%20men</a>.
Katie, I'm sure this will help other people, but what you have created is the absolute opposite of what I need. I need something that functions like the 2014 sheet, with simple black and white, simple agreement with whether you've chosen dark mode or not, and a high density view that is compatible with both mobile devices and screen magnifiers. Please just give us something that looks and works like the 2014 sheet. Because I can USE that one no matter how bad a day I'm having. I can see all my spells on my tablet if I'm not functional enough for a laptop. In 2014 don't have to fight through "there is no view that lets me see all my spells at the size I need them to be, in black and white instead of shades of gray with reds and greens that are visually indistinguishable and underlying textures and swirlies that flicker in and out of existence when you scroll, and it doesn't obey any color inversion or correction modes that will sharpen the contrast enough to let me see it." I have just spent an hour crying and composing an overly long email to my gaming group that was going to beg them to keep a 2014 game on tap just so that I can play on something resembling an even playing field when I'm having a good night. I haven't sent it because the core problem is not my game crew, the core problem is Roll20's dev priorities that put bling over accessibility. I'm already losing the mid-afternoon games that work with my body clock, but in a 2014 game when I have a good night I can see what's on my sheet and control it myself. When I'm having an iffy night I can still play from my tablet. In the 2024 layout, I can't even see on the best night of my life, and the override system you've got doesn't work on mobile which I very much need on less-good nights, and it does the exact opposite of what I need it to do anyway. PLEASE give us an actual high-density layout with simple black and simple white that lets itself color invert and resize the way the 2014 one does. I don't want to have to beg my crew to not play the games they want to play on the nights I'm able to participate because I can't both play blind and memorize a new set of variations on spellstuff at the same time. Character sheets are there to help you play. I want a character sheet that helps me play , not one that requires me to choose between copying everything out into another document that doesn't dice roll or running 2 simultaneous copies of roll20, one of them a 2014 edition with a lot of overrides, in order to be able to get a character sheet I can see.
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I'd like to add another request for a basic, black-on-white or white-on black sheet. Even for those who do not have visual issues, the current "fancy" one is annoyingly slow to load sometimes. I don't need to sit there watching while the graphic elements load individually. I'd much rather have something that opens right up immediately so I can get on with playing. ETA: I don't use Stylus and feel like I shouldn't have to install a browser extension for something that seems like an obvious gap in available options.
Adding to the pleas for a basic black-text-on-white character sheet. I hate, hate, hate black backgrounds for text. I don't have a visual disability per se, but for some reason black backgrounds have always made my eyes, and eventually my head, hurt. I, too, felt like crying when I discovered that the new sheets we're switching to are like this. It is HORRIBLE that there isn't a straightforward and easy default for this. It shows a complete lack of concern for anyone who isn't just like the coders who made these decisions.
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+1 and bringing this to the top. If the visual designers need a crash course on accessible design, there are a number of publicly available courses and guides for this. The modifications help all users, not just a subset.&nbsp;