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PSA: I got stuck between a pretty design and making it work for everyone
I helped a friend with their online store layout last week. They wanted all the buttons to be the same soft blue, which looked cool but had low contrast. When I mentioned this could be hard for people with color blindness, they shrugged it off as too rare to matter. That felt wrong to me, since good design should include everyone. I ended up showing them how adding a simple border or a bit darker shade could fix it without losing the style. It made me wonder if we sometimes care more about looks than actual use. Have you ever had to convince someone to change a design for accessibility reasons?
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milam4217d ago
Remember when @keith10's site had that unreadable yellow text?
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angelaprice1mo ago
Read a UX study last week that said about 1 in 12 men have some form of color blindness, which really isn't that rare. @keith10 might call that a lack of common sense too. They showed how a low contrast ratio, like light blue buttons on a white background, fails basic checks. Adding a darker border was their fix, same as yours, which seems like the obvious move.
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