In contrast

Here’s an idea for a Firefox plugin, in case I ever find myself with the time and inclination to write such a thing…So many sites have black text on a white background. It makes my eyes ache to read a lot of text like that — I have just been reading today’s Guardian article about Bill Gates in Africa — I get little super-white shadows around the letters, even with antialiasing turned on.

I read somewhere that coloured paper is something that sometimes helps Dyslexics to read and I have read in numerous sources that designers of web pages should use lower screen contrast for large blocks of text if they don’t want their readers to bugger off and watch MoBuzztv.com. So I did Edit | Preferences | General | Fonts and Colors; changed my foreground and background  colours and checked Always use my Colors:

It works; the rest of the article was much easier to erad.

But it’s a bit too much:

So I want a plugin that gives me a button on the tool bar that I can click and then click on an area of the page and either that element or all elements with the same class switch to my selected colours. Ideally it should be able to remember sites and element classes too so I don’t have to do it over and over again when reading the news or my email.