Contrast Rebellion
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Contrast Rebellion
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#2It would be nice since they are advocating for readable text if the font sizes were appropriate on mobile. Even funnier is that lighthouse shows a multitude of accessibility problems in the page including.... low contrast.
https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-contrastrebellion-c...
Apparently the reason for the awful sizing on mobile is missing the responsive viewport meta tag... IDK, I agree with the content of the website but it's just mind-numbing that it has these issues.
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#3I feel like this website sold me on a problem then finished before reaching a solution. Was there advice on how to do better? Maybe I missed it.
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#4They use the "desaturated" hn text as an infringing example. Shots fired!
I'm totally on board with their thesis and was about to come here and sing their praises, but then I found that they've annoyingly conflated page links and anchor links so the back button didn't do what I expected it to.
In any case playing whack-a-mole with modern web design flaws seems worthwhile to me so I'm in favour.
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#5They use the "desaturated" hn text as an infringing example. Shots fired! I'm totally on board with their thesis and was about to come here and sing their praises, but then I found that they've annoyingly conflated page links and anchor links so the back button didn't do what I expected it to. In any case playing whack-a-mole with modern web design flaws seems worthwhile to me so I'm in favour.
Yeah the desaturated text on HN is confusing. It is for example, applied to flagged posts, so I first associated the lower contrast with being flagged, but then I noticed it is also applied to self posts like Ask HN or Show HN, and I kept wondering why are all these people getting flagged? Turns out it is just the way it is.
Not to mention it's also hard to read. While this website works well and has a great community, it is kind of the embodiment of this meme: https://twitter.com/TheProgrammerMe/status/16528824903596810...
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#6One of the worst offenders is Obsidian. Users on hn keep praising the UI, but by default the menu text is borderline unreadable under less than ideal lighting conditions.
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#7They use the "desaturated" hn text as an infringing example. Shots fired! I'm totally on board with their thesis and was about to come here and sing their praises, but then I found that they've annoyingly conflated page links and anchor links so the back button didn't do what I expected it to. In any case playing whack-a-mole with modern web design flaws seems worthwhile to me so I'm in favour.
Yeah the desaturated text on HN is confusing. It is for example, applied to flagged posts, so I first associated the lower contrast with being flagged, but then I noticed it is also applied to self posts like Ask HN or Show HN, and I kept wondering why are all these people getting flagged? Turns out it is just the way it is. Not to mention it's also hard to read. While this website works well and has a great communit…
So my comments are not down voted, just desaturated!
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#8> Scroll-behaviour hijack and unreadable text on mobile?
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#9Not only text... take Whatsapp, used by all people with a cellphone in the world, whose sent and read check marks are distinguished only by a subtle change of color instead of having different icons.
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#10I feel like this website sold me on a problem then finished before reaching a solution. Was there advice on how to do better? Maybe I missed it.
Er, surely the solution is obvious? Just use higher contrast colour choices. And while we're at it, get rid of stupidly thin fonts.