Says the guy with a white on purple website
Further, Medium prevents their users from selecting black text as a choice. While Medium’s “Fischer-Price-simple” content creation is easy to use, it is also extremely limited, and fails in accessibility in areas beyond color. Perhaps this article can serve as a wake up call regarding this issue.
> And before we continue, let’s make it absolutely clear that we have no control of the color of the text in this very article, as it is hosted through Medium.com, which features poor visual accessibility of their site design.
When viewed through the TangledWeb publication,we have set it to a dark mode, which is probably the best contrast possible per how Medium is configured.
By hosting the article at Medium.com, despite their objections to how Medium.com constrains the article's appearance, the author is demonstrating that they don't consider their own argument particularly persuasive.
The authors do have control, but apparently their own point isn't important enough to change their medium (no pun intended).
If I chuck your vase at a wall, I don't get to blame the inevitability of inertia for the resulting mess.