Accessibility preferences

You can set preferences to customize wizards, editors, views, and consoles by changing the font and color settings.

The following table lists the preferences that you can customize.

Depending on the functionality that is installed, some of the preferences might not be available.

Preference	Accessibility feature
General > Appearance > Colors and Fonts	Set fonts to use in wizards, editors, consoles, views, and so on
General > Editors > Text Editors > Annotations	Set the colors for search results, spelling errors, warnings, and so on
General > Editors > Text Editors > Quick Diff	Set the colors to display differences
General > Editors > Structured Text Editors	Set the appearance color options
General > Editors > Text Editors	Set the colors for the line number foreground, current line highlight, print margin, selection foreground color, and selection background color
General > Keys	Set the behavior of keyboard shortcuts
General > Search	Set the foreground color for potential matches
Ant	Set the console colors for different types of Ant messages
Ant > Editor	Set the colors for the line number foreground, current line highlight, print margin, text, processing instructions and so on
Ant > Editor > Content Assist	Set the color options for content assist
Run/Debug	Set the colors for running and debugging
Run/Debug > Console	Set the colors for out text, error text, and in text
Java > Editor	Set the colors for the matching bracket highlight, code completion, and so on
Java > Editor > Syntax Coloring	Set the background color; the foreground color for multiline comments, single-line comments, keywords, Javadoc HTML tags, and so on
Server > Audio	Enable sounds, and set their volume for different events such as publishing, project published, server started
Team > CVS > Console	Set the text colors for the CVS console
Web and XML > CSS Files > CSS Styles	Customize syntax highlighting by setting the foreground and background colors
Web and XML > DTD Files > DTD Styles	Customize syntax highlighting by setting the foreground and background colors
Web and XML > HTML Files > HTML Styles	Customize syntax highlighting by setting the foreground and background colors
Web and XML > JavaScript Files > JavaScript Styles	Customize syntax highlighting by setting the foreground and background colors
Web and XML > JSP Files > JSP Styles	Customize syntax highlighting by setting the foreground and background colors
Web and XML > XML Files > XML Styles	Customize syntax highlighting by setting the foreground and background colors
Web Tools > Web Diagram > Appearance	Set colors for fonts, fill, and lines
Web Tools > CSS Preview > Appearance	Set the frame selection color
Web Tools > CSS Preview > Fonts	Set fonts
Web Tools > Page Design > Appearance	Set frame selection color
Web Tools > Page Design > Fonts	Set fonts
Web Tools > Page Design > Layout	Set grid colors, the behavior of the layout box, visibility and table outline and background colors, and the outline color for text cells
Web Tools > Page Template	Set the frame color of selected page elements
Web Tools > Web Site Design	Set the icon color for the applied page template

• Fonts and color settings
  As much as possible, Rational Performance Tester uses the fonts and colors provided by the operating system. However, operating systems do not provide enough colors to handle all the extra information that colors and fonts provide in the workbench.

• Specifying custom color settings
  The Eclipse workbench uses a color selection dialog box that the operating system provides. In Windows, the color selection dialog box does not respond properly to assistive technology. When you first open the dialog box, the focus is on one of the basic colors, but the dialog box provides no indication of this through assistive technology. You can use this dialog box to select colors in the workbench.

• Defining a screen reader for the help system
  Users with special needs might want to access the online help topics in a screen reader instead of in the embedded help system. You can set the online help to open in a screen reader by default.

Related tasks

Define a screen reader for the help system