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I put a tiny url link a bit below the body. If you can't see it, let me
know and I'll send it again. Tried a screenshot but it was too big :-)
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 6:50 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>
wrote:
> Can you share some URLs of pages where you are seeing this?
>
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 4:25 PM, Kathleen MacDowell
> <kathleen -dot- eamd -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> > I'm getting super frustrated with how content is displayed on many
> websites
> > on my Ffox and Chrome browsers. So far as I know, I have the latest
> version
> > of both programs. Windows 7, Office 10.
> >
> > The issue: Often text is displayed in light or grayed out colors. Also,
> in
> > many to most cases, text boxes and fields are no longer outlined. This
> > happens with surveys and with my gmail acct too.
> >
> > I've tried changing my default font on Chrome and on my computer but it
> > hasn't helped. Today I also tried to change the text color on a website
> > page (see link for how things were being displayed), but the colors were
> > inherited from another section of the site, so the change wouldn't last.
> > And I don't know that much about html/site coding so didn't want to tweak
> > things too much.
> >
> > Anyone have suggestions where the problem might be, or where I could
> > override all this gory coding? Is it possible that I'm not looking in the
> > right place? Windows 7, Office 10.
>
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Kathleen MacDowell
kathleen -dot- eamd -at- gmail -dot- com
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