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Do you offer a dark and light mode?
- Thread starter Shortie
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You know what's really interesting? How many websites out there don't offer light/dark modes.
But it's also interesting how many of those websites aren't ones you're going to spend potentially hours engaging with.
Also as a side topic, it might be interesting to talk about the next steps in accessibility - offering not just light/dark, but high contrast, grayscale, negative contrast options. Also I'd love to see text sizing come back as an option - no I don't mean zooming. I mean genuinely approaching the problem of 'I want the text to be bigger but not other visual elements' (because zooming will do things like scaling up borders and spacing which isn't the same thing!)
But it's also interesting how many of those websites aren't ones you're going to spend potentially hours engaging with.
Also as a side topic, it might be interesting to talk about the next steps in accessibility - offering not just light/dark, but high contrast, grayscale, negative contrast options. Also I'd love to see text sizing come back as an option - no I don't mean zooming. I mean genuinely approaching the problem of 'I want the text to be bigger but not other visual elements' (because zooming will do things like scaling up borders and spacing which isn't the same thing!)
Cedric
ready to reach your impossible?
I agree with the text. Some websites are built way too small that you need to squint to be able to read it.
I'm also of the mindset that I'd decouple some authorial control from the posters in favour of doing more e-book style things with presentation. Offering different font types and presentations.
For example, while the typical sans-serif font choices are fine (this one certainly is), I have reason to suggest typefaces you wouldn't typically pair with this style of design for those people who find that easier to read. Serif fonts (esp ones like Merryweather and Gentium) are good for readability and the extra serifs can help some people read better - alternatively, I've heard good things about the OpenDyslexic font for people with dyslexia, and I can even believe some of the claims about "bionic reading" (which is in no way what I'd call it if I had to name it)
But implementing these is a very different challenge. I've also put time and thought into how better to hint some of the content context to TTS readers because I think that could be interesting too; it's easier in the RP scene where a thread is usually back and forth posts between two parties (so you give each poster a different 'voice' for clarity)
For example, while the typical sans-serif font choices are fine (this one certainly is), I have reason to suggest typefaces you wouldn't typically pair with this style of design for those people who find that easier to read. Serif fonts (esp ones like Merryweather and Gentium) are good for readability and the extra serifs can help some people read better - alternatively, I've heard good things about the OpenDyslexic font for people with dyslexia, and I can even believe some of the claims about "bionic reading" (which is in no way what I'd call it if I had to name it)
But implementing these is a very different challenge. I've also put time and thought into how better to hint some of the content context to TTS readers because I think that could be interesting too; it's easier in the RP scene where a thread is usually back and forth posts between two parties (so you give each poster a different 'voice' for clarity)
Cory
Trusted Contributor
Some people have complained about my forum being too small in text size. To deter that, we installed a font size toggle switch that allows people to resize the text to whatever they prefer.
Cedric
ready to reach your impossible?
Yes, that’s absolutely brilliant. It works great too! But I do agree with making such option standard to a website.
Cory
Trusted Contributor
I'm not sure what the name of the service is, but I've seen on a few boards people added a code for accessibility options from a third-party site.
Userway is the most popular, but if the people who used it ever read the TOS they’d get very angry.
Cedric
ready to reach your impossible?
Why is that?
Imagine a group of people who are Very Against AI. Now tell them that the thing they all point to can and presumably will scrape their content to feed AI. (I suspect it’s Not That AI it’s feeding, but the group of people I have in mind don’t exactly generally understand nuance)Why is that?
NB I have a distinct subset of the whole in mind, not the entire “community”.
