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I think I have the right to blame them for creating accessibility nightmare which are unreadable without modifying CSS for many people while claiming it's a goo

I think I have the right to blame them for creating accessibility nightmare which are unreadable without modifying CSS for many people while claiming it's a good helpful thing. > You do realize that the chair you're sitting on, device you're writing on and building you're (likely) in are all designed by designers. ANY designer having gone through design school can tell you that low contrast text is a no-non. So maybe we should just say that the people doing designer jobs without learning about the basics of color, contrast and accessibility are unqualified to do their job in the same way a architect is unqualified if they design streets to small for cars or similar. Btw. if you have problems with to bright whites (which I increasingly feel is related to OLEDS but that's just a wield guss). Make the background non-white but keep the text black or very close to black. Also just to be clear I think no on is blaming all designers but just such which do thinks like gray on gray. And then believe it's all okay because their expensive OLED display displays it still kinda readable (again I'm just guessing about OLEDS, I think I have to make sure to get my hands on one to check that).

httpsterio 6y ago
I didn't talk about low contrast at all, I specifically mentioned WCAG2.1 as it has set minimum contrast values for certain text sizes which should be readable. I forced my previous place of employment to take WCAG AA-level as a minimum for every UI element and created a separate high contrast mode for our product which fulfilled the AAA-levels even though we weren't legally obligated nor had any customer ever asked for it. In the example (yellow on black) I mentioned has too much contrast and actually hinders readability for most people with a normal visual acuity as well as certain types of impairments. Designers are also the ones responsible _for_ all the accessibility features and standards set to help developers implement accessible solutions. If you're a software engineer who cares about contrast and studies different vision problems to figure out solutions for example, you're a designer in my book. This is why I also specifically separated aesthetic and usable design. The former is more akin to "art" as it aims to simply look nice and I don't personally consider it design as design is problem solving and bad design just creates more. I've always said that if a designer or web developer doesn't actively hinder accessibility, it's already a win in my book. It requires someone to make the decision to slap a #fafafa shaded text o top of a #ffffff background, semantic html and OS default colors go a long way if you don't know better.

httpsterio 6y ago

I didn't talk about low contrast at all, I specifically mentioned WCAG2.1 as it has set minimum contrast values for certain text sizes which should be readable. I forced my previous place of employment to take WCAG AA-level as a minimum for every UI element and created a separate high contrast mode for our product which fulfilled the AAA-levels even though we weren't legally obligated nor had any customer ever asked for it. In the example (yellow on black) I mentioned has too much contrast and actually hinders readability for most people with a normal visual acuity as well as certain types of impairments. Designers are also the ones responsible _for_ all the accessibility features and standards set to help developers implement accessible solutions. If you're a software engineer who cares about contrast and studies different vision problems to figure out solutions for example, you're a designer in my book. This is why I also specifically separated aesthetic and usable design. The former is more akin to "art" as it aims to simply look nice and I don't personally consider it design as design is problem solving and bad design just creates more. I've always said that if a designer or web developer doesn't actively hinder accessibility, it's already a win in my book. It requires someone to make the decision to slap a #fafafa shaded text o top of a #ffffff background, semantic html and OS default colors go a long way if you don't know better.