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Those (almost) all do reasonably well where most “minimalist” sites fail, accessibility. Many developers seem to get a kick out of “not caring about design”, as some sort of point of pride, but at the same time put in just enough CSS to screw over the visually-disabled.

HN, for instance, can’t be zoomed in iOS.

Also, the above macwright cuts off the titles to make room for the Dates, so to me the site looks like:

Rec...2020-06-01

Sec...2020-05-10

Link...2020-05-02

Rec...2020-05-01

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> HN, for instance, can’t be zoomed in iOS

Both pinch-to-zoom and increasing font size work for me in iOS Safari, what zoom are you talking about?

Using the font menu in the address bar to change the scaling should increase find size and reflow the text to fit in that size. Currently it just zooms in a. la. pinching. It works correctly on the home page, but not in a comments page.

It works fine up to 125% for me, but then it just zooms when you increase to 150%.

Thanks for identifying that issue. I'll try to find a solution for folks who are using iOS + increased font sizes. It's going to be a little tricky, so if anyone has found a solution let me know - I haven't been able to find a way to reliably detect text size adjustments on iOS and the truncation behavior is desired at smaller font sizes. Definitely will try and find a way to make it work.

Okay, I couldn't find a way to change the layout when text size is controlled so I'll change it for all viewers if they're using a small device (under 640px wide, scaled). It works in my testing on an iPhone, but let me know if it works for you!

https://5ed7d94981b55b0008f07a3b--macwright.netlify.app/

Are you still using Hugo? I'm thinking about trying Gatsby .

I only use Jekyll for macwright.org - haven't really used Hugo or Gatsby much.

Looks good, thanks!

What other parameters should be prioritized while developing websites before compromising accessibility for minimalism?

I’m not sure I understand the question. Are you asking what a designer should consider more important than compromising accessibility for minimalism? Pretty much anything...

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