Light, dark and high contrast
Four modes: Light, Dark, and two high-contrast modes — black on white and white on black — that give every box, card and button a solid edge twice as thick, underline links, and thicken the outline around whatever has the keyboard's attention.
Helps people with low vision, people sensitive to glare, and anyone working in a dim shop or bright sunlight.
Text size, area by area
Four sliders from 100% to 200%: the whole screen, and on top of it the menu, the forms and the tables separately — so just the line items can be larger, or everything. At 200% nothing is cut off and pages do not scroll sideways.
Helps people who read at a distance from the counter screen, older eyes, and anyone on a small laptop or phone.
Fonts drawn to be easier to read
IBM Plex Sans is the standard font. Three more are made for reading: Atkinson Hyperlegible, whose letters are hard to mistake for one another; Lexend, with wide, evenly spaced letters; and OpenDyslexic, with weighted letter shapes. Figures keep their own number font, so columns of numbers stay lined up whichever font is chosen.
Helps people with dyslexia or low vision, and anyone who tells a 1, an l and an I apart for a living.
Boxes you can type in stand out
The boxes you can type in or pick from can have a background of their own — soft grey, warm, cool, a tint of your colours, or a colour you choose — so they stand apart from the card they sit on. A box you cannot change, such as a calculated total, stays plain: the colour tells you where you can type.
Helps people who find flat, white-on-white forms hard to scan, and new staff learning where to type.
See which line you are on
On an invoice, an order, a bill, a purchase order or the register, the line you are typing in can carry an outline and a light tint that moves with you from line to line. The cells of the lines can also be drawn as boxes all the time, not only under the pointer.
Helps people keying long orders who lose their place, and anyone working from a paper order beside the screen.
| Item | Qty | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Welding Gloves | 6 | $9.50 |
| Argon 300CF | 4 | $28.50 |
| E7018 Rod 10 lb | 2 | $41.00 |
Colours that stay apart
Pick the accent colour — F7 orange, blue, green or slate — or Colour-blind safe, which also changes the status colours so that success, danger, warning and information stay distinct for red-green and blue-yellow colour blindness. Grayscale uses no colour at all, and every status also says what it is in words.
Helps the one person in twelve with colour blindness, and anyone printing in black and white.
Less motion
Reduce motion stops anything sliding, fading or pulsing. A computer or phone that is itself set to reduce motion gets this without the switch — the left-hand example below stands still on such a device.
Helps people with vestibular disorders, migraines, or attention that movement pulls away.
Links you can tell without colour
Underline links underlines every link in the text of a page, so a link is never told apart by its colour alone. Buttons, tabs and menu items keep their shape.
Helps people with colour blindness or low contrast vision, and anyone using a dim monitor.
A keyboard that works everywhere
Every menu, form and window works from the keyboard, with a clear outline round whatever has its attention. On document and setup forms Enter moves to the next box as Tab does, the way counter staff are used to; Alt+F opens Find customer on any document; F1 opens the help for the screen you are on.
Helps people who cannot use a mouse, people using screen readers, and fast keyers at a busy counter.
Try it with your own team.
In a walkthrough we'll set the screens the way each of your people works best.