this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2023
30 points (100.0% liked)

Rust Lang

9 readers
1 users here now

Rules [Developing]

Observe our code of conduct

Constructive criticism only

No endless relitigation

No low-effort content

No memes or image macros

No NSFW Content

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

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!

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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:

[–] tamato@vlemmy.net 6 points 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