Electric GremlinFeb 1

Today in a random large chat:

🙍 "Haha light mode users amirite?"
 "I don't judge. Some people have different needs and preferences. I learned recently, for some people, text in dark mode halos really badly into unreadability"
🙍 "What do you mean 'halos'"
 "Blurry auras around light-on-dark, like this example image"
🙍 "Wait that's not normal?"
 "No it's a sign of a possible eye condition"
🙍 "Huh TIL. I thought that was just normal"

Seriously, throw out all your ridiculous notions of people having "Wrong" preferences and needs; you might be masking issues you yourself have and could be figuring out.

Show threadthe Hearth Feb 1
@trysdyn ...could we see the example image?
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Show threadOwlor Feb 1
@Hearth @trysdyn I don't know if this is the example image being referred to, but A very good illustration of this phenomenon I saw recently is in this post: https://old.mermaid.town/@futzle/115952831308984224
Deborah Pickett (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images This is what my corrected vision looks like. They’re both bad but the double images are easier to ignore when it’s dark-on-light. #LightMode #Accessibility #Disability

Old Mermaid Town
Show threadthe Hearth Feb 1
@Owlor @trysdyn ah, thank you. that seems not to be the thing we get, which i think is just due to our glasses being slightly off from the ideal prescription
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Show threadElectric Gremlin
@Hearth @Owlor Ah sorry, I have a lot going on and just replying to people is easier than grabbing and sharing images. It was this, mostly about the straight beams shooting off from the lights.
Feb 1 at 6:25pmWeb
Show threadthe Hearth Feb 1

@trysdyn @Owlor oh

we *do* have that, but no more than what's visible in that image. it doesn't seem to interfere with reading or anything
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