IMO those issues are all very minor, even when summed.
color: #000, opacity: 0.87 on a #fff background works out to a hex of #212121, which has a contrast ratio of 16.10. This is well above the WCAG’s minimum requirement of 7 for body text and is rated as five stars and “super” by https://coolors.co.
I’d imagine that there isn’t a large user need where they start off on one chapter and need to quickly and easily navigate to a new chapter that isn’t the next chapter. When a user has a specific chapter they want to read I think they’re probably coming from elsewhere. But even if they weren’t, clicking the “HPMOR” link and then scrolling down isn’t too difficult.
My impression is that other sites that are also used primarily for reading also don’t provide this option. Medium is an example and from what I gather is considered to provide users with a great reading experience. To me, this points pretty strongly towards it being at most a minor issue.
Same as the above. Plus I bet that users who care a lot about dark mode have browser extensions installed that they can reach for when needed.
I could see an argument for the lack of fan art being more than “very minor” but personally I’m very bearish on it.
IMO those issues are all very minor, even when summed.
Is that relevant? Imagine that we were discussing the replacement of a ramp with stairs. This has a very minor effect on my experience—is that enough to conclude the change was benign?
color: #000, opacity: 0.87 on a #fff background works out to a hex of #212121, which has a contrast ratio of 16.10.
You absolutely did not understand what I wrote, which had not the slightest connection to any contrast ratios. Please reread.
I’d imagine that there isn’t a large user need where they start off on one chapter and need to quickly and easily navigate to a new chapter that isn’t the next chapter.
Why would you imagine this? I have done this regularly when using HPMOR.com.
Medium is an example and from what I gather is considered to provide users with a great reading experience.
Considered by whom? Medium offers one of the worse reading rexperiences on the web.
I bet that users who care a lot about dark mode have browser extensions installed that they can reach for when needed.
This is not even remotely true. Such browser extensions do not (and, given the way that browsers work, cannot) work well (or, increasingly, at all). In my experience, most people who “care a lot about dark mode” in fact just do not use websites that don’t have a dark mode. (Also, dark mode is, at this point, common enough, and the implementation techniques well enough known, that users simply expect it from a well-designed website.)
I could see an argument for the lack of fan art being more than “very minor” but personally I’m very bearish on it.
This boils down to “I, personally, don’t care about this, therefore it doesn’t matter”, which does not work as a rebuttal of a claim that not having the thing in question is a worse user experience than having it.
IMO those issues are all very minor, even when summed.
color: #000, opacity: 0.87on a#fffbackground works out to a hex of#212121, which has a contrast ratio of 16.10. This is well above the WCAG’s minimum requirement of 7 for body text and is rated as five stars and “super” by https://coolors.co.I’d imagine that there isn’t a large user need where they start off on one chapter and need to quickly and easily navigate to a new chapter that isn’t the next chapter. When a user has a specific chapter they want to read I think they’re probably coming from elsewhere. But even if they weren’t, clicking the “HPMOR” link and then scrolling down isn’t too difficult.
My impression is that other sites that are also used primarily for reading also don’t provide this option. Medium is an example and from what I gather is considered to provide users with a great reading experience. To me, this points pretty strongly towards it being at most a minor issue.
Same as the above. Plus I bet that users who care a lot about dark mode have browser extensions installed that they can reach for when needed.
I could see an argument for the lack of fan art being more than “very minor” but personally I’m very bearish on it.
Same as the above.
Is that relevant? Imagine that we were discussing the replacement of a ramp with stairs. This has a very minor effect on my experience—is that enough to conclude the change was benign?
You absolutely did not understand what I wrote, which had not the slightest connection to any contrast ratios. Please reread.
Why would you imagine this? I have done this regularly when using HPMOR.com.
Considered by whom? Medium offers one of the worse reading rexperiences on the web.
This is not even remotely true. Such browser extensions do not (and, given the way that browsers work, cannot) work well (or, increasingly, at all). In my experience, most people who “care a lot about dark mode” in fact just do not use websites that don’t have a dark mode. (Also, dark mode is, at this point, common enough, and the implementation techniques well enough known, that users simply expect it from a well-designed website.)
This boils down to “I, personally, don’t care about this, therefore it doesn’t matter”, which does not work as a rebuttal of a claim that not having the thing in question is a worse user experience than having it.