New look of macosx.com?? (10/5/2002)

The new theme is very hard to navigate. It's very dark and very busy.

Yes, I know you can turn it off in the control panel, which I have, but it may be a major turn-off to people who are new to this site and are just browsing and have yet to register.

Perhaps if it was a different color it wouldn't be so hard on the eyes. Maybe shades of silver would suite it better.
 
Originally posted by itanium
Yes, I know you can turn it off in the control panel, which I have, but it may be a major turn-off to people who are new to this site and are just browsing and have yet to register.
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Now there is someone who is thinking about this!

At the same time, what about accessibility? Someone with a visual impairement will be really turned off by the new DEFAULT theme. If anyone argues back about that being a small population and/or they can just change the setting, use their own software... I will rip into you and prove to the world that you are an idiot.

Again, the new theme is not well thought out at all and violates some of the most basic graphic design principles for color and color contrast (see below). This is not rocket science.

Read this site: http://www.lighthouse.org/color_contrast.htm
www.macosx.com could be added as a perfect bad example.

And see the w3 on this: http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/#style-color-contrast

I could give you 100 other links that make similar points. Do you need any more proof that this is (or should be) common knowledge?

Please tell me you are not working on new ballots for Florida elections.
 
The new look makes my eyes strain. I have since changed my theme.

Admin: I don't think you should remove the old theme. Just gives people the option. If I couldn't change the theme to something easy on my eyes, I wouldn't use the site at all. Finito.

iFunk
 
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