Persons with visual impairments and learning disabilities can adjust the display highlight colors used to indicate selections of text. Highlighted text is often used by third party assistive technologies to indicate what the user wants to read through speech output. Highlighted text can also be used by screen readers to indicate the focus of what the user is trying to read. Some screen readers are sensitive to the highlight colors. The style sheet is an external linked style sheet is applied to all documents viewed.
Users can define a style sheet to meet the needs of their particular capabilites and preferences.
Browsers should support auditory style sheets for presenting information auditory, visually or both. This is very useful in public access computer environments where there are multiple user of one computer. The user can quickly adjust the browser to their preferences. A user selectable option is available to turn off font face information specified in the page being rendered by the browser. The default font face is used to render the page text.