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Inspiring
August 20, 2024
Question

AE and Premiere accessibility issues

  • August 20, 2024
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The UI scaling options have been requested for years and completely ignored. The font is very very small and I struggle to read it which affects usability of the software.

 

Adobe recently added a high contrast option to Premiere beta which makes it very slightly sharply in contrast but not much. I am aware of a method to make the font slightly bigger in some parts of After Effects but it's not really an intended feature. Adobe software is also very flat in design to the point that it can be hard to tell panels apart. I noticed this particularly in Animate. You are basically looking at a grey soup. Unlike free software like Blender or VLC there are also no theme options really besides very slight variations on the grey.

 

This lack of accessibility could essentially lock out anyone with eyesight issues, And anyone with progressive eyesight issues such as due to age, who may find themselves unable to do their job because they can't see the software whereas with more accessibility options they may be able to manage.

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Participant
January 16, 2025

I agree with everything this poster has said, and for my small business I tend to use Canva which is very flexible and easy to see the screens, despite lacking the power of premier for videos. This seems like such a simple issue to solve, making the font larger and the contrast better. How can we make the dashboards more usable when we have age related vision decline?

 

Inspiring
November 14, 2024

43" monitor, 4K. Dedicated prescription spectacles for screen work. Still have to strain my eyes to read tiny menu and detail items in Adobe's UI.

Even Microsoft have got this right!