Re:Just Normal Web Things
by matheusmoreira on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:11AM
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There's also this one with 10 CSS declarations and night mode:
Re:Just Normal Web Things
by pwdisswordfishc on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:29PM
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The so-called "better" motherfucking website is actually worse than the original. Its worst sin being, of course, setting text in illegible gray.
Re:Just Normal Web Things
by shockstreet on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:50PM
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Illegible? It's #444 on a white background—that is a 9.73:1 contrast ratio, which gives it a perfect AAA accesibility rating.
If you can't read it, there's probably a wild CSS messing things up on your end.
Re:Just Normal Web Things
by pwdisswordfishc on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:35AM
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#000 on a white background has an even better contrast ratio.
Re:Just Normal Web Things
by shockstreet on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:00PM
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Yes, and text doesn't need to have maximum contrast (#000 over #FFF) to be legible. The website you linked above says:
> W3C's Web Content Accessibility Guidelines set the minimum contrast between text and its background so that it can be read by people with moderately low vision (which is quite common).
If you follow that link to W3C, you'll see that the minimum contrast for text to be considered legible is 3:1, though that's for people with standard vision (it's the lowest rating). To be truly accessible, the minimum we should strive for is 7:1. Anything above that has a AAA rating.
I think at the bare minimum you should strive to be readable, and you can do that with surprisingly few extra lines of CSS and very basic web design principles (avoid using full black or full white backgrounds). CSS is uhh... a choice, but you don't need to know too much in the very beginning to start building up some motivation of making stuff that looks easy on the eyes.