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!

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8 points

I really like the darker colors. But I don’t think it’s possible to change the styles of this particular instance, it would have to be implemented in lemmy-ui (and then be available to all lemmy instances).

And note that capitalized text isn’t particularly accessible. In fact, it is harder to read than regular text, because we have a lot more practice reading regular text than capitalized text.

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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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7 points

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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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

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4 points

Do you know if communities can choose their own custom CSS?

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If that were possible I would disable it, same as I did on Reddit. I want to be the one to customize the theme to my liking consistently across all communities I view, not to the liking of each individual community. Maybe what is missing are:

  • Improve the default themes
  • Custom CSS saved along with your user profile
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  • Custom CSS saved along with your user profile

You can use a browser extension like Stylus or Greasemonkey. Actually, I could create and publish a configurable userstyle if there’s demand for it.

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I’m pretty sure individual lemmy instances can host their own themese, see the docs. Though notably I have never done it before, so not super sure the difficulty

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