As a designer this design makes me puke, crap and wee myself at the same time. While seizing.
Please make the text readable with black on white. I realize that there's plenty of pedantic crap that could be said about archaic hardware, 80 columns of text and green on black but we don't live in the 1980's anymore.;)
As a mildly visually handicapped person, I can't comfortably read that color scheme at any text size. It's just horrible. Please consider accessability issues in your web design.
As I understand it, accasablity on the web is achieved through both the page and the browser. Turn the stylesheet off, or tweak the background color. While I can be sensitive to your needs, I feel the Slashdot designers have met the requirements of accesiblity, if not taste.
Also, I can read this all just fine. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Get better monitors or something. My only complaint is that the lines are very long and I tend to take extra time to find the begining of the next one.
I'm reading on a 40" high-end LCD display, so I doubt my monitor is the problem.:)
And yes, I could try to do CSS surgery, but it would be a fair amount of work to figure out what to override./. depends on CSS for layout control as well, so I can't just turn it off.
If this information were critical to me, I'd jump through hoops to read it. But it's not, so I won't, and thus the design fails. I don't seem to be the only one who feels that way.
And yes, I could try to do CSS surgery, but it would be a fair amount of work to figure out what to override.
Depends on your browser I guess... In Opera you could simply go "View -> Style -> High Contrast (B/W)" and everything is turned into readable black on white.
I'm not trying to insult the OP or force my opinions on anyone. I don't have trouble reading it, and people are being very dramatic about how much it hurts their eyes. I thought maybe it was like an optical illusion or something and it just didn't "work" on me.
I guess you could call me a wannabe Web designer, since I only write web stuff for myself and do some grunt work for other designers/programmers. I don't even think the title "web designer" is legit. But I do read books and standards docs, and I m
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As a designer this design makes me puke, crap and wee myself at the same time. While seizing.
Please make the text readable with black on white. I realize that there's plenty of pedantic crap that could be said about archaic hardware, 80 columns of text and green on black but we don't live in the 1980's anymore. ;)
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As a mildly visually handicapped person, I can't comfortably read that color scheme at any text size. It's just horrible. Please consider accessability issues in your web design.
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As I understand it, accasablity on the web is achieved through both the page and the browser. Turn the stylesheet off, or tweak the background color. While I can be sensitive to your needs, I feel the Slashdot designers have met the requirements of accesiblity, if not taste.
Also, I can read this all just fine. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Get better monitors or something. My only complaint is that the lines are very long and I tend to take extra time to find the begining of the next one.
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I'm reading on a 40" high-end LCD display, so I doubt my monitor is the problem. :)
And yes, I could try to do CSS surgery, but it would be a fair amount of work to figure out what to override. /. depends on CSS for layout control as well, so I can't just turn it off.
If this information were critical to me, I'd jump through hoops to read it. But it's not, so I won't, and thus the design fails. I don't seem to be the only one who feels that way.
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And yes, I could try to do CSS surgery, but it would be a fair amount of work to figure out what to override.
Depends on your browser I guess... In Opera you could simply go "View -> Style -> High Contrast (B/W)" and everything is turned into readable black on white.
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But you still posted, and that's all that counts.
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"As I understand it, accasablity on the web is achieved through both the page and the browser." [sic]
Then you obviously don't understand it.
"Also, I can read this all just fine"
Typical unlearned wannabe web designer response. 'Well, I can can use it! That means everyone else can too!'
On second thought, are you even serious?
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I'm not trying to insult the OP or force my opinions on anyone. I don't have trouble reading it, and people are being very dramatic about how much it hurts their eyes. I thought maybe it was like an optical illusion or something and it just didn't "work" on me.
I guess you could call me a wannabe Web designer, since I only write web stuff for myself and do some grunt work for other designers/programmers. I don't even think the title "web designer" is legit. But I do read books and standards docs, and I m