Watching LNOTP, waiting for the party to start; the last piece of (fairly) serious music has in-vision subtitles (I presume it's not in English).
They are of the white-text-on-a-thin-black-outline type.
WHEN is somebody going to finally admit that those DON'T WORK, if there's
a varied background image? The bits over the lighter parts of the image
are hard to read. Yes, I realise they're technically very clever, making
the black cutout slightly outside the lettering. (And no, there's nothing wrong with my telly.) Oh, the text telling me what the next piece is, is similarly hard to read, for the same reason.
I've got the normal SD subtitles on - we're now in between pieces, so the commentators are chatting - and those (with their solid black background strips) are _so_ much easier to read.
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I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather
like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written
across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read those either.
On 10/09/2023 10:06, Brian Gaff wrote:
I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather
like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written
across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read
those either.
Still happens, it is considered artistic!
Morrisons had a range of ready meals with yellow text on a light green background. Many other ready meals have other unreadable instructions.
On 10/09/2023 10:06, Brian Gaff wrote:
I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read those either.
Still happens, it is considered artistic!
Morrisons had a range of ready meals with yellow text on a light green background. Many other ready meals have other unreadable instructions.
A few years ago I needed to look up the e-mail address of someone at a
nearby arts-based educational establishment. Their website was
impossible to read, with yellow lettering on a white beckground and I >eventually derived the information I needed by downloading the source
code and reading it from there..
In my e-mail I mentioned how dreadful the website was and I hoped the >extablishment would use it as a shining example to the students of how
NOT to write a website. Unknown to me, they had recently started a
website design department and that website had been written by the head
of department.
My contact circulated my e-mail to the students and staff, where it >apparently caused a certain amount of amusement.
A few years ago I needed to look up the e-mail address of someone at a
nearby arts-based educational establishment. Their website was
impossible to read, with yellow lettering on a white beckground and I eventually derived the information I needed by downloading the source
code and reading it from there..
JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> wrote:
On 10/09/2023 10:06, Brian Gaff wrote:
I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its rather >> > like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written
across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could read >> > those either.
Still happens, it is considered artistic!
Morrisons had a range of ready meals with yellow text on a light green
background. Many other ready meals have other unreadable instructions.
A few years ago I needed to look up the e-mail address of someone at a
nearby arts-based educational establishment. Their website was
impossible to read, with yellow lettering on a white beckground and I >eventually derived the information I needed by downloading the source
code and reading it from there..
In my e-mail I mentioned how dreadful the website was and I hoped the >extablishment would use it as a shining example to the students of how
NOT to write a website. Unknown to me, they had recently started a
website design department and that website had been written by the head
of department.
My contact circulated my e-mail to the students and staff, where it >apparently caused a certain amount of amusement.
In article <1qgwbzz.13uyqz1161ugj6N%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid>,
Liz Tuddenham <liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> scribeth thus
JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> wrote:
On 10/09/2023 10:06, Brian Gaff wrote:
I never knew about his, being very much blind these days, but its
rather
like when we used to get paper magazine articles with the text written >>> > across bits of a picture in very low contrast colours. Nobody could
read
those either.
Still happens, it is considered artistic!
Morrisons had a range of ready meals with yellow text on a light green
background. Many other ready meals have other unreadable instructions.
A few years ago I needed to look up the e-mail address of someone at a >>nearby arts-based educational establishment. Their website was
impossible to read, with yellow lettering on a white beckground and I >>eventually derived the information I needed by downloading the source
code and reading it from there..
In my e-mail I mentioned how dreadful the website was and I hoped the >>extablishment would use it as a shining example to the students of how
NOT to write a website. Unknown to me, they had recently started a
website design department and that website had been written by the head
of department.
My contact circulated my e-mail to the students and staff, where it >>apparently caused a certain amount of amusement.
Glad to hear it! Too many webshites are like that, bloody unreadable!..
--
Tony Sayer
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.
Yes indeed, strangely enough for a screenreader the colour seldom matters at >all, its keeping the headings and tab order of links and not labelling >buttons as links and vice versa that matters to us. I hate them saying click >the red triangle to the right, when you find its zillions of tabs away and >just labelled link or button or its a picture no alt tag saying red triangle >on it. It takes but a few seconds to do this when writing the page after
all.
Brian
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