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If your designer suggests grey text on a black background, fire them.

Parts are completely unreadable, other parts only hard. Not worth the bother.

Of course it's bad for accessibility, but for me only the "Coming soon..." text on the start page is hard to read. Maybe you have your screen set too dark? Anyway, it feels a bit harsh to discount the whole project because of an unfortunate design choice...

I didn't comment on the project, just the design.

I was reading in the dark, so had brightness was low, but fine for any normal site.

This mistake is a common thing for people to complain about on accessibility forums. If you've lost lost any visual acuity, which a large percentage of the population has, your website is not usable.

Similarly, if your engineering team suggests using a mangled corpse of a browser for the UI, fire them.

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