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Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by tempsy on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:14PM (#21140319)
For a website for senior women I can't help but scratch my head at how inaccessible your website is.

All your images are missing alt tags, which is accessibility 101.

The light pink text #E6989C on white #FFFFFF fails every contrast checker and is even hard for me as a young person to read.

Edit: I think you need bigger fonts (dates are 14px..nothing should probably be less than 18px), bolder font weights, deeper color contrast across the board.

Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by lmarrone88 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:21PM (#21140370)
I really appreciate that feedback. If there are other changes we could make to boost accessibility, please let me know.
Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by mmcclure on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:24PM (#21140401)
If you haven't checked them out yet, the accessibility tools in Google Chrome's Lighthouse[1] audits were absurdly helpful to me when I had to do an accessibility audit on a recent marketing site. They're not totally exhaustive, but it's certainly a fantastic start and would have at least helped you catch low hanging fruit like contrast.

[1]: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse

Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by lmarrone88 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @04:27PM (#21140423)
Amazing, thank you!
Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by mcny on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @05:09PM (#21140769)
Please also give Firefox nightly a try

see https://youtu.be/lHBE0mIDTHk

screenshot https://i.imgur.com/kdzc26U.png

Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by lmarrone88 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @05:58PM (#21141199)
Thanks!
Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by seanwilson on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @05:28PM (#21140934)
Major ones I would fix are:

- your 404 page is returning a 200 status code instead of 404 (making it hard for Google to know what's a broken page)

- your server isn't compressing (i.e. gzip) any of the responses which will impact speed a lot.

- you have several broken external links e.g. one to chandlerdpethpsych.com

I used this Chrome extension (I'm the author) to crawl and find these issues if you want to check and confirm fixes:

https://www.checkbot.io

Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by lmarrone88 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @05:58PM (#21141203)
Thank you!
Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by big_chungus on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @06:28PM (#21141461)
This is kind of a nit-pick, but aside from what others have mentioned, your font for large and bold text (e.g. "As a woman over fifty...") is hard to read (and my vision is good). I'd suggest something clean, straight, sans-serif, and easily recognizable. Helvetica is probably a safe bet, though I'm certainly not a designer and am approaching more from a standpoint of legibility than usability.
Re:Launch HN: Revel (YC S19) – Community for Women over 50 by lmarrone88 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @09:01PM (#21142539)
I appreciate this suggestion!