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It's an interesting modernization of the classic ... overall I liked it! But ... The grey text on the black background is horrible for those of us with "older

by smoyer 10y ago

It's an interesting modernization of the classic ... overall I liked it! But ... The grey text on the black background is horrible for those of us with "older eyes". It needs more contrast and/or a heavier font. It's especially bad that, when scrolling, the font's contrast dims even more (making it very difficult to see where I am).

PhantomGremlin 10y ago
The grey text on the black background is horrible for those of us with "older eyes". I agree. But I also feel that this battle has been lost a long time ago. So when I read the article in Firefox and hated the background, I just did View -> Page Style -> No Style. In the same vein, I have min font size 18 and I also have Lucida Grande set as my font, and don't allow pages to choose their own. I also have JavaScript turned off by default. If I feel I'm missing something on a particular page or site I'll view it in Safari or Chrome. But 99% of the time I don't need to do that. When these hipster web designers are sixty years old, they will say "WTF was I thinking when I did that???" But until then, it's the arrogance of youth. Absolutely nothing someone older says to them will make any of them care about the accessibility features of their websites.
cholantesh 10y ago
In the dark theme of Firefox's Reader View, it's white on black; it seemed like a significant improvement.