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Colour Descriptions in the Apperance Preferences not meaningful to screen readers
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Description
Issue type
UI bug (incorrect info or interface appearance)
Bug description
In the Appearance tab of Preferences, the speech gives RGB descriptions of colours. This is much less meaningful than descriptive names for each colour. Descriptive names could be calculated (if customisable) or given predetermined names (if there are only a limited number of predetermined colours only).
Steps to reproduce
- From the Edit menu, choose Preferences.
The Preferences dialog appears. - Choose Appearance from the list of tabs.
The appearance preferences appear. - Move through the list of available colour choices.
Expected output: Meaningful colour names, such as "white", "cream", "tan", "yellow", and so on.
Actual behaviour: Red/green/blue (RGB) percentages are announced, such as "Red 94 percent Green 52 percent Blue 52 percent".
Such RGB descriptions may be technically accurate, but are of little practical value, leading to confusion. They are also very verbose. The above example would be better announced as "red" or "bright red".
Colour descriptions can be predetermined, if the colours cannot be changed, or can be calculated based on converting RGB to HLS model and creating a description.
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MuseScore Version
4.1
Regression
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Operating system
Windows 10 with NVDA
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