Hey LemmyRS,

I decided to try and change the style of the website to make it as accessible and appealing as I could through dev tools (inspect element).

Here are my results

Current:

After changing:

I thought this would help foster discussion on how we can improve this instance to look both appealing and accessible for supporting the most users for our growing community!

Let me know what you think!

  • tamato@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    and note that capitalized text isn’t particularly accessible

    Yeah admittedly my “sense” in design has a ways to go. After my exams I’m hoping to read “Don’t let me think Twice”, which is apparently a really good book for UI design. Hopefully maybe i can bring in some of the good concepts from there to Lemmy too

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      1 year ago

      In the UK, a design committee found that they shouldn’t use all-caps on road signage (the norm at the time) because it couldn’t be read at a glance

      They also designed their own font, you might have seen it:

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        1 year ago

        I appreciate the example and am happy to admit this is a bad design decision regarding accessibility

        As a means of preventing any of these decisions from reaching end-users, I’ll make sure to participate in GitHub discussions before making any PRs

        Thank you for the feedback