Cindy:

> For a really low-vision user like you describe, your department would really be better off providing him/her with a larger monitor than paying you to program in a lot of exceptions. Programming in the exceptions is time consuming and costly, and the user should qualify for the larger monitor under the Americans With Disabilities Act.

I have 80/20 corrected vision and none of my monitors are under 20 inches and I never qualified for assistance under the Canadian With Disability laws...

A company I used to work for has an application that is sitting on over 10,000 desktops. Assuming even 1% of people have serious vision problems that can be helped by having better control over an application's color, don't you think it was much cheaper to spend 10 days developing a facility to allow the user complete control over the color properties than to ask various clients to buy larger monitors (and better salesmanship too)? I am not saying you should always proivide such a facility, just that you should evaluate the pros and cons of this component.

By the way, this facility is part of their framework and thus no longer cost them anything (maybe an extra hour per project to set some properties) and they are reaping the benefits.

Daniel