Connection line thickness + general accessibility

Wishlist and RFEs
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Hey TD,

I would love there to be a way to change the thickness of the connection lines between operators. At the moment, its hard to see them when a backdrop is there, it makes tutorials tough to record, plus it fails a lot of accessibility guidelines (such as WCAG) to have a purple 1px line on a black background too.

As an extended ask, I would love for there to be more accessibility settings such as the ability to alter font sizes, theming, etc too, or at least have the default theme be accessible.

Thanks!

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Hi.
Thanks for the excellent suggestion. We’ve logged it to be made adjustable.

Have you looked at ui.colors?
It’s a dictionary of all color definitions used in the UI:

Similarly, more options available in:

Alternatively some DAT font sizes can be adjusted in the Edit->Preferences Dialog.

Thanks for your suggestions,

Rob.

Cheers,
Rob.

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Thanks for putting it into the log, Rob! I did see the Colors and Options classes but it’s a fairly advanced way to have to edit the UI itself. I’m preparing to teach a beginners TD class and was hoping for something that was more standard. I love TD but having the default look fail accessibility guidelines is, at best, making it harder for new users to get started, and at worst, it could be a legal issue (ADA violation, etc). Even a basic zoom in/out mode and higher contrast colors would fix a lot of the issues I’m having!