Expose OS accessibility preferences?

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
c
Domain
accessibility, operating-systems

Research direction

Start by reviewing SDL_GetSystemTheme and the issue's proposed accessibility preferences: reduced motion, high contrast, shape-based color alternatives, and text or cursor scaling. Determine whether these settings can be exposed consistently across supported operating systems and define the scope and platform behavior needed before implementation.

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Description

There exists SDL_GetSystemTheme for light/dark theme; would it be good to add similar options for some accessibility settings? Some ideas based on what my OS provides: Reduced motion; high contrast; shape-based replacement for color coding (for colorblind users); preferred text/cursor scaling.

I'm suggesting this to discuss whether such features would be within the scope of SDL, but also whether those things are reasonably implementable across platforms.

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