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Re:The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching w... by hyperhopper on Monday October 09, 2023 @10:44PM (#37827998)
Even if you never need to scale, Having light/dark & high contrast is just having basic features and complying to the law. If your site has 50 users it should have these, and this new light/dark switch is still inappropriate for even this basic use case.
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Re:The Future of CSS: Easy Light-Dark Mode Color Switching w... by extra88 on Tuesday October 10, 2023 @08:08AM (#37831046)
What law? The U.S.'s Section 508 and other laws and regulations based on WCAG, don't require that sites honor `prefers-color-scheme` or to work correctly when `forced-colors` is active.

Nevertheless, it's a good idea to do so (though if a site honors `prefers-color-scheme` it should also have a setting so the user can choose to have that site not match their system's color scheme setting).

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