From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2006-11-01T19:34:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Is there really an impending Ruby fracture???

On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, 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 <453EF9B1.6060106@cesmail.net>,
> > > > "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@cesmail.net> 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.

I think I'd find that near impossible too, but it seems a strange result
from my reading of the stylesheet, colours seem to be 666 and 333
for the most part, AFAICS.

I pretty certain I can't try out safari on Windows XP, but I've never
actually checked...
> 
> > 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.

Good. I'm glad that works.  I've submitted an alternate stylesheet for
rubylang.org to improve the clarity there, but I'm waiting for those
in charge of that activity to implement (something like) it.  I found
the blue on blue difficult enough to be uncomfortable.
> 
> Of course, as you say, I'm seeing the default settings I've made for my
> browser.
> 
> Regards, Morton
> 
        Hugh