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Accessibility Update: Colors
My current research focus is readability and accessibility of web content. As an invited expert of the W3C/AGWG (World Wide Web Consortium Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) I've been involved in ...
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New colors launched
bug status-completed
Some international Stack Overflow sites are almost unusable in dark mode
The new standards are causing problems at least on our site, Stack Overflow em Português (SOpt).
When ...
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New colors launched
status-review ref 459
The 'compulsory' meta tags are much too weighty. They distract from everything else. Punchier than even the question title.
e.g.
MSE
Ask Different [& others]
If you shrink ...
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Colors update: A more detailed look
First, I want to say that it looks like a lot of thought and planning went into this, so thank you for that. Also, thank you for sharing such a detailed post, including both rationale and details so ...
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New colors launched
bug status-completed
Question author's user cards are no longer highlighted on some sites
The OP used to be highlighted (usually in blue), but now they're not, making it harder to see who's talking in ...
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Did anyone consider the impact on autistics of recent Code of Conduct changes?
Did anyone consider the impact on autistics of recent code of conduct changes?
I can't answer that definitively, but the answer looks to be no. (I would say SE didn't consider the policy's impact on ...
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Option to remove fuzzy outline and restore clarity to the counts on new top bar
I see only disadvantages to this design. The semi-transparent border only takes up space, making the badge look larger while providing even less room for the content. The numbers are really squished ...
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New colors launched
status-completed
The brief flash when directly visiting an answer (as demonstrated by clicking this link) is EXTREMELY BRIGHT in high-contrast dark mode.
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Accepted
Please revert the line-height change!
The new line-height makes it hard to mentally separate paragraphs. It's difficult to tell from a glance which lines belong to which paragraph, while the old line-height made this very easy to ...
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Recent color contrast changes and accessibility updates
tldr: I'm not happy the community wasn't consulted in any level at first, and that accessibility design changes need to be more holistic, rather than trying to pass an audit on its own sake.
A couple ...
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New colors launched
Low contrast on bounties text
bug status-completed
Can it not be white on light blue?
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Please revert the line-height change!
This probably shouldn't be an answer, but I can't think of where else it should go.
Aaron has commented on the linked question that the line-height is ~1.6.
I maintain that the line-height needs to be ...
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New colors launched
bug status-completed
Inconsistent reds for review
In dark mode, the colors in the top bar are pink but the review indicators themselves in the drop down are the old red. This doesn't happen in light ...
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Please revert the line-height change!
I hope this gets reverted, but in the meantime, we can browse with the old line height of 1.3 with this mini userscript I wrote. Screenshot:
You'll need a userscript manager like Tampermonkey.
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Option to remove fuzzy outline and restore clarity to the counts on new top bar
Yes, it would be great if these changes could be reverted back to the previous design. The reputation text appears smaller than before (probably because it's crammed into that capsule layout), and ...
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New colors launched
status-completed
The color of the "voted" state for vote buttons seems to have changed. Now it has an orange border and is not filled in with dark blue.
Orange isn't Meta's theme color so I ...
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Accessibility Update: Colors
Thank you for making this an intentional part of the site design! As someone with red-green colorblindness, I find the use of red and green to denote opposite meanings to be tough to distinguish ...
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Please revert the line-height change!
Edit 2020-09-09: status-completed
It is quite common to use things like line drawing characters in illustrations. With the new line height on code blocks, this looks even worse than before.
Real-life ...
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New colors launched
bug status-completed
Highlight color in achievement notifications is too dark
It seems like the highlight color for unread achievement notifications has unintentionally become darker than before:
Can ...
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New colors launched
Differing Contrasts In Page Is Hard On Older-Eyes
Eye-strain with new color scheme in dark-mode is significant. After working with the new color scheme browsing questions, it is quite blinding. Either ...
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New colors launched
bug status-completed
Link text looks just about readable on a white background, but it's low-contrast against the blue background of the new contributor indicator. (A convenient bug illustrates both ...
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Update: New Colors Launched
status-planned ref 475
The Add button in "Your Communities" is very difficult to see. I haven't edited my communities list in a long time so I don't know if this is due to the latest colours ...
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New colors launched
bug status-completed
The scroll bars for code blocks are barely visible in dark mode. The old ones were a light gray and now they are black on an almost black background. Here is a comparison from ...
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"How Rust manages memory using ownership and borrowing" blog post contains numerous errors
I am a Rust subject matter expert, and I would like to further substantiate the erratic nature of the blog with a few more issues I encountered.
The computer memory allocated to running programs is ...
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Give us back the light green box for accepted answers. It can be accessible too!
The issue isn't the white text; it's the choice of heavily desaturated colors that only look green when they're also light.
Here's #FDFDFD white text on a #128739 green background, meeting WCAG AA ...
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My brain cannot ignore the ignored questions due to contrast change. Please change it back
The fact is, they made a change that may improve the user experience for one group while ignoring the user experience for others. This new design is not accessible!
Because the current design relies ...
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New colors launched
bugstatus-declined
There's bad contrast in the sidebar: Grey on light yellow—even I, who barely have reason to criticise my eyesight, have slight trouble reading it on my screen:
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Why are images of text, code and mathematical expressions discouraged?
It's an accessibility issue for 2 reasons:
Screen readers cannot read text in pictures.
Text is often blurry in zoomed-in images.
I encourage you to use a screen reader and try it out. I will also ...
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Why are images of text, code and mathematical expressions discouraged?
My process for answering a code-related question often involves:
Copy and paste the OP's code into a sandbox on my machine.
Debug the code.
Copy and paste my code back into the answer.
If my answer ...
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