Hi #accessibility mastodon,
I’ve been building a #fediverse web app, “PieFed”, for the last few months and recently put a bit of effort into making it more accessible. It is almost WCAG 2.1 AA compliant now.
However I have no lived experience of using the web with disability so any feedback in this area is most welcome. Please give it a try at https://piefed.social and let me know what you think, from an accessibility perspective.
I'm mostly blinded by light and am pretty short sighted but I can read.
- Starting as a dark theme is good enough for my eyes at least.
- Most links being underlined makes them hard to read. Underlining them when you go over them is good enough as it allows the eye to catch when something changes and identify clickable text easily enough. Underlining links is good when there's a lot of non-underlined text but right now it doesn't work here. For some people it'll just appear like blobs of text.
- External links have a small icon next to them which appears black. Not easily visible on dark backgrounds.
- I think the background itself isn't contrasted enough with the text, it makes it more tiring to read. Most visually impaired people are sensitive to contrasts.
Apart from that I don't have much to add, I don't use lemmy enough to make any more meaningful comments.
@AxelTerizaki I've made a high contrast theme now. To enable it, go to https://piefed.social/user/settings and choose 'High Contrast' as the theme. It's the last field before the "Save Settings" button.
Thanks for the idea for this!
Rimu
Spokeek
Axel Terizaki
rimu