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

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From: YOUNGV5
Date: Jul 27, 2011 11:27AM

The site is not bad, but not particularly exemplary either.

- Could you show us a site you or someone else has done that is exemplary?

Too much content on main page.

- I'm counting 26 words in total as compared to google.com that currently
has 34 world. Are you saying 26 words on a main page is too many?

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
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and easily gives the impression of shouting.

- I think shouting is the impression he is trying to give for the three
slogans, CONTENT ≠ ILLUSTRATION, MAKING TEXT READABLE, and JOIN THE
REBELLION.

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.

- It is a simple site, made on this person's busy schedule, and it is for
designers. Most designers have a basic understanding of contrast.

Vincent Young
User Experience, Web Accessibility Specialist
Nationwide Corporate Marketing
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07/27/2011 01:07 PM
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Re: [WebAIM] Interesting cause: http://contrastrebellion.com
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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