Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
by teej on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @01:20PM
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It's worth taking a look at Stripe's revised color palette after a ton of fascinating research - https://stripe.com/blog/accessible-color-systems
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I don't know about everyone else but with my eyesight, the text on that page is pretty much impossible to read.
Strange for a blog post url that begins with "accessible".
I have pretty terrible eyesight, but I did not find the font or color difficult to read here.
Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
by josefresco on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:49PM
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The page has 86(ish) WCAG contrast errors mostly related to link colors: https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://stripe.com/blog/acce...
I found it pretty difficult to read because it is so bright and uses lighter font color.
I just had a look, honestly expecting you to be exaggerating... but wow, that really is strangely difficult to read! I don't know if it's the colour, the font, the weight, or the perfectly bad combination of all three?!
Re:How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)
by champagneben on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @02:08PM
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From the second sentence: "Good contrast makes it easier for people with visual impairments to use products."
Agreed. The background is too white I think. It's blinding and I even have flux on. haha