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Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by savikko »

daedalus_f wrote: post #94
da39a3ee wrote: post #54

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I think the trouble is that even educated humans struggle to talk intelligently about medical and psychological problems. We all worry about our health and mortality, and the idea that a psychological or medical condition threatens your life is somewhere between an existential threat, and a worrying cloud over your life. As a result, people easily become wedded to the idea that a particular condition is affecting the…

I'm from a biology/healthcare background and come to HN for the interesting tech discussions, trivia and the different perspective. I've learnt loads over the past few years and got into a few amateur programming projects in my free time and I'm grateful for that. But I've stopped going to the comments section of anything related to my actual fields of knowledge because the comments are often so wrong/borderline craz…

I have learned here at HN names for lots of effects / phenomena. And started to notice these on my daily life.

What you described here is greatly related to The Gell-Mann Amnesia.

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by SCLeo »

eadmund wrote: post #78
TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #70

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If you want to inject CSS, use a "user styles" manager like Stylus. There's almost no learning curve if you know CSS. You can write entire sheets for all pages, multiple or single domains. For example to make HN legible (basic text, spacing and contrast): @-moz-document domain("ycombinator.com") { :root { --font-size: 1.2rem; --text-color: #333; } .comment { font-size: var(--font-size); line-height: 1.5; } body { fon…

> If you want to inject CSS, use a "user styles" manager like Stylus. Unfortunately, Firefox on Android only supports a limited number of extensions, and Stylus is not currently one of them. It's really sad, because I used to have some nice site-specific user styles. I really don't understand Mozilla's decisions. They destroyed their password security, they destroyed their extension advantage. One wonders what's next…

Hm... Does anyone know why they don't allow arbitrary extensions? I am very curious.

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by waffle_ss »

kingcharles wrote: post #95
waffle_ss wrote: post #46

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What is the point in linking this? Imagine the mess that comment threads would be if everyone who made similar comments about something did this.

I actually really appreciated the comment above. Downvote it if you don't like it. If it gets enough downvotes because the community hates it, then it'll go away.

You really appreciated a comment that effectively said "hey look I said the same thing two days ago" ...? Yikes dude. Reddit infiltration has totally ruined this place.

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by TAKEMYMONEY »

jeroenhd wrote: post #97
TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #87

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> Then turn down the brightness On all my computers? And my phone? And my tablet? And my... You could say the same about sites where the body text is set unreadably small. "Just zoom in!" It does not persist across devices, sessions, users etc the way a well-designed site would.

I have my phone on auto brightness and my displays on max brightness. Black on white is perfectly readable to me, even in the dark. I don't know what ultra HDR monitor you're using or what light sensitivity issue you may have, but I don't want to have to install addons in my browser because you can't find the brightness slider.

Light sensitivity issue?

> I don't want to have to install addons

Sounds like you don't need to, you're happy changing the setting in many places (every device), than one (a stylesheet)

> because you can't find the brightness slider

"Make the user fix it" was the old thinking. Now we consider a more robust set of platforms, devices and users.

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by rasz »

TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #70
perihelions wrote: post #9

I recommend people with similar interests take a look at uBlock's filter language (yes, the ad blocker). It's a short and shallow learning curve until you can inject your personal CSS into webpages, and incrementally tweak them. Two small examples: "Show all text on the internet as black" *##*:style(color: black !important) "Show comment text on HN as bold" ycombinator.com##.comment:style(font-weight: bold !important…

If you want to inject CSS, use a "user styles" manager like Stylus. There's almost no learning curve if you know CSS. You can write entire sheets for all pages, multiple or single domains. For example to make HN legible (basic text, spacing and contrast): @-moz-document domain("ycombinator.com") { :root { --font-size: 1.2rem; --text-color: #333; } .comment { font-size: var(--font-size); line-height: 1.5; } body { fon…

>"user styles" manager like Stylus

or stylish? https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extensio...

I rather use the one extension I can fully trust instead of installing additional ones

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by a_w »

perihelions wrote: post #9

I recommend people with similar interests take a look at uBlock's filter language (yes, the ad blocker). It's a short and shallow learning curve until you can inject your personal CSS into webpages, and incrementally tweak them. Two small examples: "Show all text on the internet as black" *##*:style(color: black !important) "Show comment text on HN as bold" ycombinator.com##.comment:style(font-weight: bold !important…

Thank you so much! Just applied on hotwired.dev

hotwired.dev##p:style(font-family: "Jost", serif; !important)

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by userbinator »

TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #104
jeroenhd wrote: post #97

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I have my phone on auto brightness and my displays on max brightness. Black on white is perfectly readable to me, even in the dark. I don't know what ultra HDR monitor you're using or what light sensitivity issue you may have, but I don't want to have to install addons in my browser because you can't find the brightness slider.

Light sensitivity issue? > I don't want to have to install addons Sounds like you don't need to, you're happy changing the setting in many places (every device), than one (a stylesheet) > because you can't find the brightness slider "Make the user fix it" was the old thinking. Now we consider a more robust set of platforms, devices and users.

Now we consider a more robust set of platforms, devices and users.

What a bunch of doublespeak BS for "now we want to keep the users stupid and unknowing."

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by TAKEMYMONEY »

userbinator wrote: post #108
TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Light sensitivity issue? > I don't want to have to install addons Sounds like you don't need to, you're happy changing the setting in many places (every device), than one (a stylesheet) > because you can't find the brightness slider "Make the user fix it" was the old thinking. Now we consider a more robust set of platforms, devices and users.

Now we consider a more robust set of platforms, devices and users. What a bunch of doublespeak BS for "now we want to keep the users stupid and unknowing."

Nope, just a lot more device variety than 10 years ago, and a11y becoming more than just alt attrs. Put bright pink on bright yellow as hyperbole, there's such a thing a too much contrast in a color theme! Even monochrome.

Users aren't unknowing, they know how to adjust the brightness whether the site is designed well or not. I said one was "changing the setting in many places."

Re: Change the colour of grey text back to black on website using poor contrast text

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Post by TAKEMYMONEY »

rasz wrote: post #105
TAKEMYMONEY wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you want to inject CSS, use a "user styles" manager like Stylus. There's almost no learning curve if you know CSS. You can write entire sheets for all pages, multiple or single domains. For example to make HN legible (basic text, spacing and contrast): @-moz-document domain("ycombinator.com") { :root { --font-size: 1.2rem; --text-color: #333; } .comment { font-size: var(--font-size); line-height: 1.5; } body { fon…

>"user styles" manager like Stylus or stylish? https://robertheaton.com/2018/07/02/stylish-browser-extensio... I rather use the one extension I can fully trust instead of installing additional ones

or Adblock Plus?

Right, that's why I didn't link to Stylish. uBO is great for blocklists but all my custom styles go in stylesheets eventually. You can use both (I do)!

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