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I would like to add presentation here. Actually the very website has put me off to read more than a few sentences. If we talk about accessibility by contriving
by runxel 6y ago
I would like to add presentation here.
Actually the very website has put me off to read more than a few sentences. If we talk about accessibility by contriving short sentences which are easy to read and grok, we should also mean accesibility in a visual way. The website uses nearly the full width of my display – which is frankly way too wide.
Now take a look at an article by Paul Graham. Dense content, but it's still easy to read, because it is visually well organized. Rule of thumb: ~70 characters per line.
- uryga 6y ago> Rule of thumb: ~70 characters per line. i wish HN followed that! i usually end up putting it in a narrow window (or emulate a narrow screen; Ctrl+Shift+M in Firefox) to make it easier to read.
- tennineeight 6y agoAnd I just realised why I prefer to read HN on mobile. The Hews app in particular has fantastic flow to churn giant multi-threaded conversations. The desktop website, in comparison feels like designed for reading every single comment.
- runxel 6y agoMe too! Thats's why I use Stylus in Firefox. I style most of the sites I visit (I really like dark mode...). What I did on HN was e.g. to apply `.comment { max-width: 35em; }`. That's a much better width!