Contrast Rebellion

#1

Post by kartikkumar » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 4:45 PM UTC

Contrast Rebellion
contrastrebellion.com

Re: Contrast Rebellion

#2

Post by teh_klev » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 5:42 PM UTC

Discussion from last time around:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2807047

Re: Contrast Rebellion

#3

Post by carsongross » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 6:00 PM UTC

Auxiliary support provided by The Horde of Users Who Want Drop Shadow & Gradient Easements In Their UI So They Can Tell What They Can Click On, or THUWWDSGEITUISTCTWTCC, pronounced Thuh-Woods-Gheit-Eww-Tict-Wit-See.

Re: Contrast Rebellion

#4

Post by andybak » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 6:26 PM UTC

Many of the examples looked borderline to me. How much contrast is 'enough'?

Also - surely this is something that should be fixable in the OS or browser? OSX has an high-contrast accessibility mode. Do we really need to fix this at source?

Re: Contrast Rebellion

#5

Post by eleumik » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 6:28 PM UTC

I am confident this rebellion will be one of the few that will succeed in these days.

Why ? Because rebellions like revolutions need a critic mass of people and well, we are getting very old here ;-)

Re: Contrast Rebellion

#6

Post by dasil003 » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 6:41 PM UTC

The critique of HN seems off-base. The low-contrast comments are the ones that are downvoted and therefore the low-contrast is there specifically to make them less readable because they ostensibly deserve less attention.

Re: Contrast Rebellion

#7

Post by hawkice » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC

andybak wrote: post #4

Many of the examples looked borderline to me. How much contrast is 'enough'? Also - surely this is something that should be fixable in the OS or browser? OSX has an high-contrast accessibility mode. Do we really need to fix this at source?

Good rule for contrast: If you would refer to the text color and background color by the same word, that's not enough contrast. Compare the good contrast examples, largely black on white or white on black, with the bad examples, universally gray on gray (or off-white on off-white).

Re: Contrast Rebellion

#8

Post by pygy_ » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 6:48 PM UTC

dasil003 wrote: post #6

The critique of HN seems off-base. The low-contrast comments are the ones that are downvoted and therefore the low-contrast is there specifically to make them less readable because they ostensibly deserve less attention.

It also applies to the text of self-posts (tell/ask HN), which is what Contrast Rebellion points out.

Re: Contrast Rebellion

#9

Post by Avshalom » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 6:54 PM UTC

dasil003 wrote: post #6

The critique of HN seems off-base. The low-contrast comments are the ones that are downvoted and therefore the low-contrast is there specifically to make them less readable because they ostensibly deserve less attention.

That isn't a downvoted comment in the screen shot, that's the topic text as in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9441500

Re: Contrast Rebellion

#10

Post by Hobotron1 » Sun, Apr 26, 2015, 7:18 PM UTC

dasil003 wrote: post #6

The critique of HN seems off-base. The low-contrast comments are the ones that are downvoted and therefore the low-contrast is there specifically to make them less readable because they ostensibly deserve less attention.

> because they ostensibly deserve less attention.

They end up standing out to me, and I always end up reading them.