Webdesigners: please make text readable

Beautiful site.

HN is called out as a site with poor contrast (the text in a self post). I do find myself frequently tilting my monitor back to improve the contrast of posts here, but I think only on the downvoted ones, which, I suppose, is the point.

But now, looking up at the now-clicked-on story link, I see that visited links have rather low contrast, too.

I've gotten into the habit of modifying the CSS of web sites I frequent to improve the readability and usability in general. I do this using a plugin for the web browser. For instance, this is how the HN home page looks like: http://i.imgur.com/WaTQq.jpg

This is the most perfect design because it's tailored to my needs.

Here's how YouTube looks like: http://i.imgur.com/eZAsx.jpg

Reddit: http://i.imgur.com/rnaxb.jpg

Interesting you say about high contrast, all the examples are black on white. Do this mean all content related websites should be white backgrounds and black text?

I think what we need is a balance.

If everything in your website is in high contrast, big font-size, black & white - it is also a problem.

But I agree the idea behind the "Contrast Rebellion" - the accessibility of web content.

tldr: Do not waste your time on this.

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Webdesigners: please make sites usable.

The non-javascript fallback display is somewhat broken but at least it works. With javascript enabled the site is stuck on the second slide (Opera 11.50).

And then there is the part where the site says "Content ≠ Illustration". Well, yeah, you first. And by the way, centered text is hard to read. And I can't use my browser's back button nor does the site provide such a function. And dear god, it gets even better on this slide:

Let's put an end to this low-contrast, light gray nonsense and use typography for its purpose:

MAKING TEXT READABLE.

AGREE? LET'S CHANGE THE WORLD TOGETHER!

Never heard about all uppercase text being hard to read?

This might just be an elaborate joke or sarcasm, if so, I do not get it.