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From: Beattie, Allan
Date: Sep 27, 2017 4:11PM

Hi Diane

As Eric Meyer says, this kind of thing makes me scream internally into the void.

It never ceases to amaze me that marketing people, whose job entails helping the business to succeed by reaching more people, can so often be lacking in basic empathy.

"I find the colours ugly, so to hell with the many thousands of people for whom it's a barrier."

To answer your question "has anyone ever done such a thing?", the answer is yes: style switchers were all the rage about 15 years ago.

Jeremy Keith has one on his blog - https://adactio.com/
Léonie has one too - https://tink.uk/

As Patrick says, it'll be more work, but personally I would go ahead and build it, with one key proviso:

- the default colour scheme is accessible, with the marketing-friendly version behind the toggle.

That way, they get what they asked for, and everyone wins :)


Best of luck,
Allan

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