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Design is illegible. Needs more contrast between text and background. I'm not even vision impaired and I was squinting immediately.
by hankbond 3mo ago
Design is illegible. Needs more contrast between text and background. I'm not even vision impaired and I was squinting immediately.
- viccis 3mo agoI'm, by contrast, an able bodied person with functioning eyes and had no issues.
- d0ddy 3mo agothere are many many themes. some high contrast ones
- bjelkeman-again 3mo agoSo much modern GUI design is really poor for those a bit older where contrast is important.
- 1e1a 3mo agoThe accessibility checker in Chrome/Firefox devtools would immediately flag this.
- aslakhellesoy 3mo agoEven 15 years ago this was such a big problem that someone tried to start a rebellion: https://contrastrebellion.com/ https://contrastrebellion.com/
- gombosg 3mo agoHaha, nice website, with the greyed-out comments on HN featured among the offending examples. :)
- arnitdo 3mo agoVibe coded slop has the same patterns of black-on-black and grey-on-grey illegible text. Mix that with piss poor monospace, small-size fonts and you have to squint to read each letter
- nativeit 3mo agoThe whole brand identity is “late”, as in late night, as in all the lights are off and I don’t want my screen to blind me. I feel like this is a perfectly appropriate sort of theme, but maybe that’s just my inner 20-year old impugning my inner 70-year old?