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. S

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.