From: "jameshcunningham@..." Date: 2006-11-01T08:30:18+09:00 Subject: Re: Is there really an impending Ruby fracture??? On Oct 31, 6:13 pm, Morton Goldberg wrote: > 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 <453EF9B1.6060...@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. [snip] I just tested it in Safari, and while I don't have impaired vision, even I would find that text impossible to read. I think it's a bug rather than a design decision, though: in Firefox it appears as black text on a white (or pale) background. It appears to be treating the main text as a link; if you mouse off the text it becomes brown, just like the links on the page. Best, James