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hankbondtoday at 4:22 AM5 repliesview on HN

Design is illegible. Needs more contrast between text and background. I'm not even vision impaired and I was squinting immediately.


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aslakhellesoytoday at 7:24 AM

Even 15 years ago this was such a big problem that someone tried to start a rebellion: https://contrastrebellion.com/

bjelkeman-againtoday at 6:58 AM

So much modern GUI design is really poor for those a bit older where contrast is important.

1e1atoday at 7:03 AM

The accessibility checker in Chrome/Firefox devtools would immediately flag this.

d0ddytoday at 5:58 AM

there are many many themes. some high contrast ones

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viccistoday at 5:51 AM

I'm, by contrast, an able bodied person with functioning eyes and had no issues.

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