Myndex

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by Myndex 4y ago
Yea, it's annoying. Medium does not allow the author to pick the text color. Believe it or not, this combo was the best contrast. Medium's fischer price CMS is really weak in this area.
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by Myndex 4y ago
Thank you for the feedback... I change the scheme regularly, as part of a series of user experience experiments. It's currently in Dark Mode because Medium's current restrictions on light mode made the article unreadable. (That is
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by Myndex 4y ago
Sadly true, this has led to so much misinformation.
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by Myndex 4y ago
Yes thank you, this particular article was not at all about dark mode vs light mode -in fact it was mostly about light mode, with dark text. The fact the article is currently displayed in dark mode is that medium really messing things up
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by Myndex 4y ago
Not that it's relevant to this thread, and I have clarified this elsewhere: This is destined as open source. The only reason the public beta has a time limited license is to make it clear that the pre-release materials needs to be disc
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by Myndex 4y ago
Thank you Drew, exactly.
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by Myndex 4y ago
Nowhere in the article did I advocate for black and white — and far from that. This article is part of research I am doing on readability contrast. Also, "uxmovement" is about the last place to be taking advice on the subject. Nev
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by Myndex 4y ago
The article points out why AA is not a salient contrast metric, but also not true—in the design page, you have very limited control, and then after leaving the design page, the color you selected are changed and used differently (i.e. the h
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by Myndex 4y ago
Well, it's where the eyeballs are for this kind of content.
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by Myndex 5y ago
This uses the old WCAG 2 formula, which is known to be wrong, and is not useable for dark mode at all.
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Introduction to Color and Accessibility(developer.mozilla.org)
10 points by Myndex 5y ago|1 comments
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by Myndex 5y ago
A tutorial overview of modern color theory and practice. Including: Color basics, Perception of Color and Contrast, CSS and the sRGB Colorspace, Light and Luminance, Hue Chroma and Saturation, Psychophysic
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by Myndex 6y ago
The "gamma" if you will for printed materials is usually defined as the "dot gain", for reflected light one of the key factors is the light adaptation of the eye at viewing. The WCAG 2 contrast guidelines are defined usi
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by Myndex 6y ago
APCA is the new contrast method for WCAG 3, it is part of the SAPC perceptual contrast appearance model. At the SAPC dev site, there are some additional tools, click on "research mode" under the font display. The difference betwee