We are constantly fighting to keep aesthetics from interfering with usability, for example by people using lower-contrast, more subjectively appealing typography, such as quoting text in green on white, or using lower contrast backgrounds of any color. Both are hard even for people with normal vision to read in bright sunlight. A dark mode might be a better accessibility option at present; the evidence is inconclusive overall, but much stronger than smaller or lower contrast text, of course.
The story of Comic Sans' accessibility to dyslexics is truly remarkable: https://www.thecut.com/2017/03/the-reason-comic-sans-is-a-public-good.html What makes it remarkable is that Comic Sans outperforms both of the fonts which were specifically designed to be easier for dyslexics by copying its surnised features in a more aesthetically appealing way, Dyslexie and OpenDyslexic. Overriding browser default faults and using lower contrast, smaller text for aesthetic purposes is an ableist assault on dyslexics, and it's not hard to find plenty of them complaining about it. Our efforts would be better spent allowing people to switch to Comic Sans as a preference, or trying to get people to remember to include a shortlink to their slides and upload them before they present, for nearsighted people not in the row who might want to read along, and not use fonts smaller than 1/12 the height of their slides, for that matter. On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 2:21 PM Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Do you know about > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Reading/Web/Desktop_Improvements ? > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 10:48 PM John Erling Blad <jeb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Could we please update them with a slightly more up-to-date skin? > > > > Take a look at our Norwegian competitor in the lexicon field. > > https://snl.no/kunstig_intelligens > > > > John Erling Blad > > /jeblad > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > -- > Amir (he/him) > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
