Just Normal Web Things

Re:Just Normal Web Things by pwdisswordfishc on Sunday August 06, 2023 @02:29PM (#37025069)

The so-called "better" motherfucking website is actually worse than the original. Its worst sin being, of course, setting text in illegible gray.

https://contrastrebellion.com/

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Re:Just Normal Web Things by shockstreet on Sunday August 06, 2023 @07:50PM (#37028230)

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.

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Re:Just Normal Web Things by pwdisswordfishc on Monday August 07, 2023 @11:35AM (#37035903)

#000 on a white background has an even better contrast ratio.

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Re:Just Normal Web Things by shockstreet on Monday August 07, 2023 @06:00PM (#37041539)

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.

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