>Cindy:
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>> 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.
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>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...
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>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.
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>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.
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>Daniel

Daniel,

You have some valid points. (BTW, the ADA says that if you are disabled and otherwise able to do the job that it is the employer's responsiblity to provide you with "reasonable accomodation" which means things like a larger monitor, better chair, etc.)

My guess is that Chuck has fewer users, that he is an in-house programmer so he doesn't have to sell the same way you did, and also that Chuck is pretty new to VFP and would have difficulty getting choice of colors built into his app and get it deployed within a reasonable amount of time. Not only that, he says his users don't know how to use the control panel, so they might have trouble using whatever color chooser he provided with his app. (I also have some pretty low-level users. I made a lot of changes to one of the running apps soon after I got here, and was floored by how long it took them to get the hang of things. I will not be doing that again!)