well not quite: before we continue, let’s make it absolutely clear that we have no control of the color of the text in this very article, as it is hosted through Medium.com, which features poor visual accessibility of their site design.

Further, Medium prevents their users from selecting black text as a choice. While Medium’s “Fischer-Price-simple” content creation is easy to use, it is also extremely limited, and fails in accessibility in areas beyond color. Perhaps this article can serve as a wake up call regarding this issue.

One would argue that it's hard to make others care about your contrast preferences when you won't change blogging platforms despite contrast problems.

First paragraph:

> And before we continue, let’s make it absolutely clear that we have no control of the color of the text in this very article, as it is hosted through Medium.com, which features poor visual accessibility of their site design.

They present the fact that it's hosted through Medium.com as if that was an immutable law of nature. Other websites exist.

By hosting the article at Medium.com, despite their objections to how Medium.com constrains the article's appearance, the author is demonstrating that they don't consider their own argument particularly persuasive.

This. I stopped reading after the "we have no control of the color of the text in this very article" line.

The authors do have control, but apparently their own point isn't important enough to change their medium (no pun intended).

Well he says medium uses grey text, yet this article has a purple background which is clearly not a medium default - so obviously he had some control and made this unfortunate choice.

I still think it's worth pointing out. I do believe this is the first purple article I've seen on medium, so I don't believe purple is a limitation of the platform.

It's effectively the author's personal website. If he can change the A record for his domain name, he is in control. That he might not want to do this is a different matter.

If I chuck your vase at a wall, I don't get to blame the inevitability of inertia for the resulting mess.

How’s that an excuse?

Should’ve said third paragraph:

When viewed through the TangledWeb publication,we have set it to a dark mode, which is probably the best contrast possible per how Medium is configured.

they should not have set dark mode in the first place

The text isn't even white.

Yup. It's #EEE1F3, a pink-ish tint of GREY. What an irony ..

Is it pink? It looks white to me.

Medium does not allow the author to set the text color at all.