From: Morton Goldberg Date: 2006-11-01T08:13:40+09:00 Subject: Re: Is there really an impending Ruby fracture??? On Oct 31, 2006, at 1:29 PM, Hugh Sasse wrote: > On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Morton Goldberg wrote: > >> On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:25 AM, Tim Smith wrote: >> >>> In article <453EF9B1.6060106@cesmail.net>, >>> "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" wrote: >>>> >>>> https://www.lostlake.org/blog/index.php?/archives/11-The- >>>> Impending-Ruby-Fractu >>>> re.html >>> >>> That page makes me really appreciate cmd-option-ctrl-8 on my >>> Mac! :-) >> >> I suffer from impaired vision. Although I am a Mac user, cmd- >> option-ctrl-8 >> didn't help that much. Even with inverted colors, the page still >> shows very >> low contrast and is hard for me to read. It may look pretty to >> those with >> normal vision, but it's hell for those suffer from vision problems >> that make >> low contrast text hard to read. > > That's interesting: it looks like black text on white for the most > part to me, (WinXP, Firefox), though the pale green links are lower > contrast than the text. To me, using Apple's Safari browser, the text on David Pollak's blog appears as pale olive green on a very pale yellow green background. That's difficult for me. > Some of the blue text in the header is more > difficult, and the dates and most of the sidebar are much lower > contrast. The problem for me was the size of the print, mostly, > which I fixed with ctrl-+ (actually, ctrl-scrollwheel). That's > more of a kludge, because I then need horizontal scrolling. > > I tend to keep styling to a minimum on my sites so people's browser > defaults don't get overridden. > > Is my ruby page accessible to you? > > http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/ Yes, and it's easy for me read. Black text with dark blue links on a white background don't give much trouble. I don't even have to increase the text size with cmnd-+ or use ctrl-scroll -- the initially displayed size is fine. Of course, as you say, I'm seeing the default settings I've made for my browser. Regards, Morton