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The irony of championing accessibility using low-contrast simulated VGA text...

• VCFundedGenYer 2mo ago
  Also the notion that the sides of the pages flash as you scroll due to simulating that old Macintosh monochrome monitor dithering effect. My eyes.
  • boxed 2mo ago
    Isn't that because you (and me!) have screens with slow response times for pixel color change though?
    • pibaker 2mo ago
      Designing for less than ideal screens is a part of accessibility.
• Narishma 2mo ago
  Where do you see the low contrast?
  • smohare 2mo ago
    The linked article has a fairly light gray background with white text. I can read it, but the low contrast is just tiresome.
    • nosioptar 2mo ago
      I hate low contrast more than most. Setting browser. display. use_document_colors or browser.display.document_color_use to 0 fixes things. It does break some stuff, like voting buttons on hn. Im happy with the tradeoff.
    • greendestiny_re 1mo ago
      According to the WCAG Contrast Checker website, the contrast satisfies all the WCAG visibility criteria. https://contrastchecker.com/?c=ffffff&b=444444 https://contrastchecker.com/?c=ffffff&b=444444
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• hn_throwaway_99 2mo ago
  When I first was reading this I thought that the author was deliberately using a shitty font to make the point that obfuscated fonts are hard to read.
• flexagoon 2mo ago
  Agree. My vision is not even that bad and yet I literally had to squint and hold my phone very close to be able to read this page.