There is a whole spectrum of vision impairments (pun intended) involving excessive sensitivity to bright light. As you might expect, there is no single answer t

There is a whole spectrum of vision impairments (pun intended) involving excessive sensitivity to bright light. As you might expect, there is no single answer to all of them. A lot of people have trouble with white background and dark text normally seen in applications and on the web. The best answer is knowing how to configure your software. There's actually a reason for the ancient phrase "User Agent" which predates the web by decades; your software should be an agent for you and handle the details for you much like a Hollywood agent takes care of the details for a star. You can configure some web browsers to take care of the pesky details for you like fixing dark text on white background: http://www.designtools.org/pix/news.ycombinator.com_w2013form.png http://www.designtools.org/pix/news.ycombinator.com_w2013for... For me, with my config, every website looks basically like that. The web would be nearly unusable for me otherwise. I can hear the "artistic designer" faction gathering their torches and pitchforks due to me offending their skilled sensibilities with something so ugly, but when you have a disability, often your only choice is between something less cool and nothing at all.