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Bold fonts and darker colors

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Bold fonts and darker colors

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- [Instructor] The last two visual accommodations we'll be adding support for will be bold text and darker system colors. Users with visual impairments might find it easier to read text that is darker or bolder, and they can set these preferences in Settings, General, Accessibility. Enabling bold text requires a restart, and when we come back, you can see the changes immediately. Labels are bolder and more pronounced. If we go back to the accessibility settings, and into Increase Contrast, we can enable darker colors. Let's go into the Bridges app and see what we have. When we enabled the bold text preference, the phone was forced to restart which means our app was also restarted. Because of this, and because we're using standard system font styles, our labels are automatically converted to a bold weight. There's one exception though, and if we navigate to the detail screen, the elevation views don't quite look right. If you remember from our previous video, that's because we're using…

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