yes i am aware of all of these things see user frietjes vector css and solution for you and my comments on the talk page of wp accessibility my initial problem was that any css modifications would be ignored by inline style statements but it appears there is a way to use important to trump those changes it just gets very tedious to have to create an entirely new style sheet because someone thinks red on green looks great it's an ongoing process i have also been working on some greasemonkey stuff to modify such things everywhere on the web but that has been slow going given the myriad of ways people can add junk thank you though