Chenge color of mispelled words underlining
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I'm a photofobic bad typist and I really need a way to change the spell checker red line for misspelled words in text areas and emails to something with more contrast (like yellow) when I force dark web content via flag.
Is there any way to do so in Vivaldi latest stable version on Windows 11?
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How you can see, I even made a mistake in the title of this thread, because I can't see the misspelled word highlight...
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I changed the webpage colour via Filter Invert.
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@Pesala Thanks, it works for the spell checker underlining.
However, now I've another problem for those websites that provide their own dark theme. By using the Filter Invert, they are shown in a blinding white!
An example is the Qwant search engine.
Is there a way to keep a dark theme for the GUI (in Windows and Vivaldi) and not let websites know I'm using it so that they provide the usual white pages and I can invert them through Filter Invert?
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Addition: is there an automatic way to do so? I can manually change the theme on each website, but it's absolutely annoying.
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@snertev Filter Invert only works for the current tab anyway. Set a shortcut for it in Settings, Keyboard, Tab.
If you enable single-key shortcuts, you could use "i" if you don't already need that to toggle images.
Quant Search page is not blinding white for me, it is black with filter invert enabled.
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@Pesala said in Chenge color of mispelled words underlining:
@snertev Filter Invert only works for the current tab anyway. Set a shortcut for it in Settings, Keyboard, Tab.
If you enable single-key shortcuts, you could use "i" if you don't already need that to toggle images.
I see, thanks. I can enable the Filter Invert whenever I need to write in a textarea.
Quant Search page is not blinding white for me, it is black with filter invert enabled.
That's strange. With active dark mode in Windows and Vivaldi Filter invert disabled the website provides a dark theme for its pages:
with filter invert enabled, the page is white:
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@snertev I don't use active dark mode. I cannot stand dark themes, it makes text so hard to read due to my colour-blindness. Black text on white is best,
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@snertev Many pages these days have access to your system theme settings and check whether it’s light or dark and will serve you an according theme. When you invert that it’s the opposite of course. There’s nothing strange going on here.
For your general problem see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33167389/how-to-change-the-spellcheck-color-of-the-underline. Browser support seems to be missing.
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Just for reference, there is a recent RFE in the Chromium/blink bug system that asks a flag or other option so that users with specific health conditions will be able to change the spellchecker underlining color/type when forcing dark content mode:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1449464#c_ts1685454770
I've tested other software on win 11 and several apps have specific option or defaults to resolve this accessibility issue: Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Notepad++, Bluefish HTML editor, VS Code editor, ...
I hope Blink devs will pay attention to this too.
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Unfortunately, the bug quoted above has been labeled as WONTFIX (even if it's a valid one), at least for the time being.
It's a pity. Without this and other contrast bugs resolved for dark content, I simply can't use any chromium-based browser, because of my health condition and my usual bad typewriting.
