An option to view a post without formatting

[AAndroidD]

Formatting is a great feature of the site. It allows creativity, expression, and generally making things pretty. But sometimes, it can make things harder to read for some users. In addition to some fonts being harder to decipher, user colour choices and mobile users having to deal with tabs that have expansive text underneath, then having to crawl back up with a less clear indicator of which tab is selected by default, leads me to wonder:


What if, for those who find things difficult, we could have an option to disable the viewing of BBcode for individual posts that make things too hard?


Colourblind individuals, who may struggle with certain text and text box colours will be able to strip it down to native text.


Dyslexic individuals can strip away distracting fonts to allow them to focus on the words being said.


The advantages are many, and I was surprised after seeing a particularly hard to read post that this did not appear to be a feature in any form I could find (if I am missing it, please direct it to me!) and I was forced to copy and paste the text into a text editor to get it formatted in a readable state.

 

[Kaerri]

Stripping the formatting for tabs, spoilers, accordions, and other placement-type boxes would probably make the post even harder to read, as everything that was separated is merged into one without any sort of divider. (Also, the default tab is the one on the left, always.) I do understand your point about legibility; I've come across several posts in which color and font choices have caused me to highlight in order to read the post.


If you're in an RP or other conversation with someone that consistently does this, maybe you want to tell them? We post in order to let others read what we're saying, after all, and if I knew that my formatting was making it hard for others to read my posts, I'd change the formatting.