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> Senior interface designer > The website fails accessibility color contrast

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> Senior interface designer > if you click on the website, it sends out pixelated ripples over the whole screen

Text is WCAG AAA?

Chrome's built in Lighthouse scoring fails your site on lacking sufficient contrast.

Subjectively, even without vision problems, I strongly dislike your choice also.

Thanks for the feedback. I wonder which system they use, WCAG is notoriously limited so I often use APCA and both cleared this combo

While that’s true, it’s still uncomfortable and hard to read, so I don’t know what WCAG is smoking: https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=202958&...

Thus demonstrating that the final accessibility gate must be "the mark I human eyeball". Looks impossible to read without reader mode on my screen.

Your "paper" choice is #bfbfc4 - even going to #ddd makes the APCA go from ~63 to 80 and would probably address the complaints handily. WCAG has a lot of gaps.

But human eyeballs can vary wildly, hence the need for tools. I'm the kind of person who uses the sepia mode for reading, so I didn't expect such strong discomfort from readers. This feedback surfaced a lot here, so it was a blind spot on my part.

Anyway, did a quick fix, should be enough for now

I actually have a panel that I've collected over time, starting with a former coworker who was visually impaired, and I am now thinking it should be some kind of users-signup-and-give-feedback system, some sort of statistical sampling of a few people across the accessibility needs spectrum.

He can design good looking interfaces, just not accessible ones I guess.

I mean the website does look good, it's just hard to read.

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