As a designer this design makes me puke, crap and wee myself at the same time. While seizing.
Please make the text readable with black on white. I realize that there's plenty of pedantic crap that could be said about archaic hardware, 80 columns of text and green on black but we don't live in the 1980's anymore.;)
Same. I was doing well until I saw, "The next is a bit long", and figured to hell with it. I wasn't laughing anyway... perhaps because my eyes were bleeding.
You can make the article a bit more readable using the negative plugin of compiz-fusion (linux).
When you press superkey+n it changes to black on pink:).
Or use the "Darken" bookmarklet: javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='*%20{%20background:%20black%20!%20important;%20color:%20grey%20!important%20}%20:link,%20:link%20*%20{%20color:%20#0000EE%20!important%20}%20:visited,%20:visited%20*%20{%20color:%20#551A8B%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet(%22javascript:'%22+styles+%22'%22);%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);
What do you mean, "We aren't in the 80s anymore?" I sit here, typing on my Apple//c, with a white glove on my hand, "Thriller" playing the the background, and I'm about to pop off to my break dancing lessons. I would say more, but I have to clean off the ranch dressing I just got all over my parachute pants before I head out the door.
As a mildly visually handicapped person, I can't comfortably read that color scheme at any text size. It's just horrible. Please consider accessability issues in your web design.
I know how you feel. I used to have 20/15 vision but I read an article from the Idle section in full and now I had to spend most of my paycheck for a down payment on a seeing eye dog.
As I understand it, accasablity on the web is achieved through both the page and the browser. Turn the stylesheet off, or tweak the background color. While I can be sensitive to your needs, I feel the Slashdot designers have met the requirements of accesiblity, if not taste.
Also, I can read this all just fine. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Get better monitors or something. My only complaint is that the lines are very long and I tend to take extra time to find the begining of the next
I'm reading on a 40" high-end LCD display, so I doubt my monitor is the problem.:)
And yes, I could try to do CSS surgery, but it would be a fair amount of work to figure out what to override./. depends on CSS for layout control as well, so I can't just turn it off.
If this information were critical to me, I'd jump through hoops to read it. But it's not, so I won't, and thus the design fails. I don't seem to be the only one who feels that way.
And yes, I could try to do CSS surgery, but it would be a fair amount of work to figure out what to override.
Depends on your browser I guess... In Opera you could simply go "View -> Style -> High Contrast (B/W)" and everything is turned into readable black on white.
I'm not trying to insult the OP or force my opinions on anyone. I don't have trouble reading it, and people are being very dramatic about how much it hurts their eyes. I thought maybe it was like an optical illusion or something and it just didn't "work" on me.
I guess you could call me a wannabe Web designer, since I only write web stuff for myself and do some grunt work for other designers/programmers. I don't even think the title "web designer" is legit. But I do read books and standards docs, and I m
Have your doctor check your eyes, if such a visually low-strain scheme like white text on black background hurts your eyes, you have something wrong and probably need Lasik corrective surgery.
Lasik corrective surgery is for correcting nearsightedness or farsightedness - not sensitivity to high levels of contrast, which is what we're talking about here. (The specific problem of white text on a dark background is amplified by the way an LCD monitor produces its images as well - as does the specific environment in which you are viewing the monitor... but I digress.)
In this week's Disagree Mail, I try to show the range of messages I get. It's not all angry or insane, sometimes it's sent to us for no apparent reason. We start off a little mad, slip into a whole bunch of crazy and finish with someone who has a complaint about racism at his favorite restaurant. Read below to get started. The last sentence in this one is what sold me.
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, wrote: "I have been blocked from Slashdot. I have done nothing worthy of being banned and if you would take your head out
You seem to me to be a poor designer - white text on black background is the standard for readability for users with vision issues, and is far less eye-strain inducing. However, I agree, white on green is just absolute bullshit.
No one's asking you to waste your time here. Go waste it somewhere else if you don't like the colors.
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a
clever but highly unmotivated trick.
-- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
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i receive these kinds of mails from nigeria from a prince every time.
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As a designer this design makes me puke, crap and wee myself at the same time. While seizing.
Please make the text readable with black on white. I realize that there's plenty of pedantic crap that could be said about archaic hardware, 80 columns of text and green on black but we don't live in the 1980's anymore. ;)
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I only made it half way through the second paragraph before my eyes started freaking out.
If you want more than that out of me, you'll have to change the colors.
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Do not look at Idle.slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
...with remaining eye.
Negative plugin in compiz-fusion. (Score:1)
When you press superkey+n it changes to black on pink
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On a Mac, try "Command, Option, Control, 8" to invert the colours.
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Or use the "Darken" bookmarklet:
javascript:(function(){var%20newSS,%20styles='*%20{%20background:%20black%20!%20important;%20color:%20grey%20!important%20}%20:link,%20:link%20*%20{%20color:%20#0000EE%20!important%20}%20:visited,%20:visited%20*%20{%20color:%20#551A8B%20!important%20}';%20if(document.createStyleSheet)%20{%20document.createStyleSheet(%22javascript:'%22+styles+%22'%22);%20}%20else%20{%20newSS=document.createElement('link');%20newSS.rel='stylesheet';%20newSS.href='data:text/css,'+escape(styles);
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What do you mean, "We aren't in the 80s anymore?" I sit here, typing on my
Apple
and I'm about to pop off to my break dancing lessons. I would say more, but I
have to clean off the ranch dressing I just got all over my parachute pants
before I head out the door.
Sincerely,
M.C. Morgan
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+1
As a mildly visually handicapped person, I can't comfortably read that color scheme at any text size. It's just horrible. Please consider accessability issues in your web design.
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As I understand it, accasablity on the web is achieved through both the page and the browser. Turn the stylesheet off, or tweak the background color. While I can be sensitive to your needs, I feel the Slashdot designers have met the requirements of accesiblity, if not taste.
Also, I can read this all just fine. I don't know what everyone is complaining about. Get better monitors or something. My only complaint is that the lines are very long and I tend to take extra time to find the begining of the next
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I'm reading on a 40" high-end LCD display, so I doubt my monitor is the problem. :)
And yes, I could try to do CSS surgery, but it would be a fair amount of work to figure out what to override. /. depends on CSS for layout control as well, so I can't just turn it off.
If this information were critical to me, I'd jump through hoops to read it. But it's not, so I won't, and thus the design fails. I don't seem to be the only one who feels that way.
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And yes, I could try to do CSS surgery, but it would be a fair amount of work to figure out what to override.
Depends on your browser I guess... In Opera you could simply go "View -> Style -> High Contrast (B/W)" and everything is turned into readable black on white.
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But you still posted, and that's all that counts.
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"As I understand it, accasablity on the web is achieved through both the page and the browser." [sic]
Then you obviously don't understand it.
"Also, I can read this all just fine"
Typical unlearned wannabe web designer response. 'Well, I can can use it! That means everyone else can too!'
On second thought, are you even serious?
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I'm not trying to insult the OP or force my opinions on anyone. I don't have trouble reading it, and people are being very dramatic about how much it hurts their eyes. I thought maybe it was like an optical illusion or something and it just didn't "work" on me.
I guess you could call me a wannabe Web designer, since I only write web stuff for myself and do some grunt work for other designers/programmers. I don't even think the title "web designer" is legit. But I do read books and standards docs, and I m
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javascript:var f=Function("var e=document.getElementsByTagName(arguments[0]);for(var i=0;i<e.length;i++){e[i].style.color='black';e[i].style.backgroundColor='white';}");f("body");f("div");f("span");f("td");f("th");f("p");f("a");void(0);
Now if I could just figure out why the text in the buttons is still white...
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You actually think a site that has moved to basically shoving web ads down your throat with half a 'story' is going to care about your eyesight?
Slashdot has gone down the tubes since it tried to catch up with digg and reddit.
GET BACK TO THE BASICS, FOR FUCK'S SAKE!
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Please make the text readable with black on white.
Agree!
There are worse possibilities than white on green, but I wouldn't read those, either.
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kill the italics (Score:1, Offtopic)
I find white on this green quite readable, though for me it would be most readable as white on black. At least it's not yellow on blue.
The italics however, must go. Or at least italicize the editorial comments instead of the quoted material.
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Have your doctor check your eyes, if such a visually low-strain scheme like white text on black background hurts your eyes, you have something wrong and probably need Lasik corrective surgery.
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Damn, going from white on green to black on white lettering damn near blinded me and I want to complain or something.
Eyes back to normal now.
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In this week's Disagree Mail, I try to show the range of messages I get. It's not all angry or insane, sometimes it's sent to us for no apparent reason. We start off a little mad, slip into a whole bunch of crazy and finish with someone who has a complaint about racism at his favorite restaurant. Read below to get started.
The last sentence in this one is what sold me.
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, wrote:
"I have been blocked from Slashdot. I have done nothing worthy of being banned and if you would take your head out
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You seem to me to be a poor designer - white text on black background is the standard for readability for users with vision issues, and is far less eye-strain inducing. However, I agree, white on green is just absolute bullshit.
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