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If it is hard to read for someone who is young and with perfect vision, how do you expect that someone with less than perfect vision / older / with worse monito
by edwintorok 12y ago
If it is hard to read for someone who is young and with perfect vision, how do you expect that someone with less than perfect vision / older / with worse monitors will be able to read it?
There are W3C standards for accessibility for a reason, and widely used sites should follow them.
- j4kp07 12y agoBecause the majority of readers on the internet skim pages and whether subconsciously or not, they are picking up on keywords, headlines, links and the like. If you take the approach to simply "make the text #000 and the page #fff", you are simply making matters worse.
- edwintorok 12y agoIf they can't read your site comfortably than why should they spend more time on your site than it takes to close the tab? See my other comment, the recommendation is usually #333 on #fff, or at least try to follow the WCAG standards: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7704533 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7704533 When I see a site with such low contrast I think "the owner of this site doesn't really care if people actually read the contents" so I usually just close it. Unless I know from a reliable source that the contents is actually something very very interesting, that I would want to read then I'll take the extra effort and try to read it.