Is there really an impending Ruby fracture???

[Morton Goldberg]

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

 

[jameshcunningham]

On Oct 31, 2006, at 12:25 AM, Tim Smith wrote:


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

 

[Hugh Sasse]

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...

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