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Re: Interesting cause: http://contrastrebellion.com

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From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Jul 27, 2011 11:09AM

Chris Heilmann wrote:

> A cause web site asking for more contrast between text and background
> in designs. Shame the markup is not that accessible.

You mean the site http://contrastrebellion.com/

Generally, a message should be understandable even to people who do not see
its Subject line. Even more so for URLs, as e-mail clients usually don't
turn URLs in Subject lines to clickable links.

The site is not bad, but not particularly exemplary either. Too much content
on main page. And it sets a bad example by using ALL UPPERCASE TEXT for many
of its slogans. All uppercase is less readable than normal sentence casing -
and easily gives the impression of shouting.

And the site does not say what "low contrast" means. It surely means
different things to a perfectly healthy good-eyesíght 20-year old nerd than
a 60-year old person with two pairs of eyeglasses, neither of which works
ideally for reading on screen, not to mention people with _serious_ eyesight
problems. There _are_ quantitative guidelines on contrast, and I would
expect to see them at least mentioned on a site that discusses the topic.

Yucca