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CAD Forums => CAD General => Topic started by: CaddmannQ on November 03, 2014, 05:46:01 PM

Title: AutoCAD for the blind?
Post by: CaddmannQ on November 03, 2014, 05:46:01 PM

...Well the color blind that is... :-P

I've got a couple color blind drafters who are having trouble with the highlight colors in AutoCAD 2015. They're confused when their selection set looks funny. Somethings which were quite visible become very hard to see.


We've diddled all our std colors to avoid ones hard to see, (hard to distinguish one from another that is)  but the highlight function isn't so cooperative.

Is there a way to tweak what happens when the object of a given color highlights?

Title: Re: AutoCAD for the blind?
Post by: Bethrine on November 03, 2014, 05:50:41 PM

I think here:

Title: Re: AutoCAD for the blind?
Post by: CaddmannQ on November 03, 2014, 06:15:40 PM

That's what I thought, but what controls the highlight colors?

Title: Re: AutoCAD for the blind?
Post by: Crank on November 04, 2014, 01:51:29 AM

Color blinds should look at the variables PRESELECTIONEFFECT an SELECTIONEFFECT to replace glowing line highlighting for the old dashed lines. Turning off the hardware acceleration can also help.

Title: Re: AutoCAD for the blind?
Post by: CaddmannQ on December 01, 2014, 05:46:43 PM

Thank you Crank. It's taken me a while to get back to this issue. I'll give it a go.