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I think people have reacted to this comment as pure snark, but I did take a moment to look at your comment history and you're actually describing a physical rea

by thom 5y ago

I think people have reacted to this comment as pure snark, but I did take a moment to look at your comment history and you're actually describing a physical reaction you're having, not just a matter of taste. I'd love to hear how general this problem is for you on the web, and how one might go around testing for these sorts of accessibility issues during development. I know of the various colour blindness 'simulation' tools available but other than the option of a dark mode (a proper one, not a gimmicky one like here) I wouldn't know how to address this issue.

Lev1a 5y ago
> I'd love to hear how general this problem is for you on the web For me in general "thin dark fonts on bright BG" and "bright fonts on very dark BG" are both straining to the eyes although the former is worse almost every time. I find myself zooming in further and more often on websites with those sorts of color schemes although if I zoom too far in I then have to swivel my head back and forth for every line of text due to my glasses having "progressive lenses"[0] ie. a pretty narrow cone of vision with the right "power" to read at eye-screen distance. > testing for these sorts of accessibility issues during development - IMO a pretty good rule of thumb would be to not cover vast amounts of the website in bright colors - offer a dark mode, maybe even make it the default with an optional light-mode - respect the user's browser/system-colorscheme with the CSS property "color-scheme" [1] (although in Firefox the support for that feature is scheduled for the next version this coming January) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_lens [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color-scheme https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color-schem...

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I think people have reacted to this comment as pure snark, but I did take a moment to look at your comment history and you're actually describing a physical rea

by thom 5y ago

Lev1a 5y ago
> I'd love to hear how general this problem is for you on the web For me in general "thin dark fonts on bright BG" and "bright fonts on very dark BG" are both straining to the eyes although the former is worse almost every time. I find myself zooming in further and more often on websites with those sorts of color schemes although if I zoom too far in I then have to swivel my head back and forth for every line of text due to my glasses having "progressive lenses"[0] ie. a pretty narrow cone of vision with the right "power" to read at eye-screen distance. > testing for these sorts of accessibility issues during development - IMO a pretty good rule of thumb would be to not cover vast amounts of the website in bright colors - offer a dark mode, maybe even make it the default with an optional light-mode - respect the user's browser/system-colorscheme with the CSS property "color-scheme" [1] (although in Firefox the support for that feature is scheduled for the next version this coming January) [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_lens https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive_lens [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color-scheme https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color-schem...