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"Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site,

"Those with dyslexia and ADD or ADHD have begun to press for a less busy Internet, one where ads don’t distract them to the point of being unable to use a site, or where proper contrast is used, rather than the more artistic combinations of light text against an only slightly lighter background." Aah, your gray font used to write this is hard to read and I haven't been characterized for any of these. Also, HN seems to make it hard for people with these impairments to read downvoted comments :P, though they do that to everyone. There should be an option to re-darken a downvoted comment temporarily.

sp332 14y ago
I just select it with my mouse, but I'm not sure how effective that is on a touch device.
- stephengillie 14y ago
  It's not. Dead posts are moreso on mobile. HN as a whole on mobile is a somewhat miserable experience.
  - RandallBrown 14y ago
    I like to use ihackernews.com
    - graue 14y ago
      Whoa, this is great! Thanks for the pointer. I might even start using this on my desktop, too, it's so nice.
      - jevinskie 14y ago
        I used iHackerNews until http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/ came out.
antidoh 14y ago
"Also, HN seems to make it hard for people with these impairments to read downvoted comments :P, though they do that to everyone. There should be an option to re-darken a downvoted comment temporarily." As I mentioned in another response here, Firefox View/PageStyle/NoStyle is increasingly my response to the increasing number of cool but unreadable sites. That will solve your problem of not being able to read downvoted comments. A quicker and more focused solution is just to drag across the downvoted comment, which shows up in high contrast reverse colors for me.