https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66021
--- Comment #4 from Isarra <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Daniel Friesen from comment #3) > Black on white is not "clearly legible", it causes eye strain in normal > people and for dyslexic people causes bluring of text that makes reading > difficult. I'm sorry, but that's a fallacy. The idea with lower-contrast text is to simulate print media - with the softer contrast of not entirely black text on not particularly bright paper - but that simply does not work with uncalibrated monitors, which will display greys completely inconsistently. Given that any monitor that costs under $1000 is probably going to be one of these (generally only visual designers, medical professionals, and college students in coffee shops use the nice ones), you can understand why this would be an issue - the vast majority of our end users are never going to see the exact contrast we specify for them. The aim in good design is to make the interface usable to the widest span of users possible, and despite the common trend, this means setting the base contrast for important elements as high as reasonably possible. For most users, the high contrast will be fine out of the box, and for those on displays where that causes eye-strain or with disorders where it causes other problems, a fix lies in the display itself: turn down the contrast. This solves the problem not only for a single website, but for the entire internet and every other application on their computer as well. With low base contrast on the interface, however, there is no reverse option for users with the opposite problem (washed-out text) to increase the contrast, because there is simply no way to make greys black on the display-end without seriously screwing up the overall display. This is because greys aren't supposed to be black. They're supposed to be grey. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
