Posted by mrpauldriver on October 31, 2012 at 12:18pm
I'm working on some school websites at the moment and the education authority is wanting me to provide a high contrast version of the site for the benefit of the visually impaired.
I am completely married to Omega and have no interest in looking elsewhere for a solution and would really appreciate any pointers for how solve this problem.
My initial thinking is to create a second installation of the site in a sub-folder, running off the same database, but using a different set a Omega stylesheets.
I think this would work, but can't help thinking that this solution would be somewhat over engineered.
Is there a better technique or are there any suitable modules, that would help me to create more accessible websites?
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Congratulations for putting
Congratulations for putting accessibility high on your priority list.
One example of a theme switching module is http://drupal.org/project/switchtheme
I am sure there are others - jQuery has a few.
I'd probably use the ThemeKey
I'd probably use the ThemeKey module, but it may be a little overkill for your purposes.
http://drupal.org/project/themekey
I haven't tried the Switchtheme module, but it sounds promising from the description as well.
sub-sub-subtheme
I wonder if you could create a subtheme of your existing custom theme.
In theory you should be able to keep the same layout rules but override the colours etc.
I can't remember if themes allow multiple parents yet, or if that is planned for D8, check the theming guide, it should be more practical to maintain compared to a duplicate.
Since this is for a school you may want to check they allow JS & what browser they have, sometimes the admins can lock them down to being almost useless :^)