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I would love to read more about your product/service/idea.

But I can't.

Being visually impaired just makes things worse. Your site doesn't work with FireFox 'Reader View', and that forces me to 'Toggle CSS' off which causes the icons and site-design to be FUBAR.

You might have the best damn product in the world, but if I can't read about it on your own pages then it's no good to me.

I only found out that you use Ansible from the comments on here from another poster. I really want to know about this now as I have migrated our entire datacenter to Ansible, and I really love it.

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Is reader view an officially supported standard? I must say that if you can't read the #586772 on white, that's a pretty severe handicap that I imagine would require a screenreader.

Let me postscript that I have sympathy for not having full ability to read on the internet, and I'm sure the world would be easier for many if screenreaders and high contrast were universal, but I also wonder whether and by how much design must suffer to accomodate all users.

>I must say that if you can't read the #586772 on white, that's a pretty severe handicap

well, i have pretty much technically perfect (just very easily tired after almost 30 years looking into the screen) vision and while i can read it, i'd prefer to have it in higher contrast as i just physically feel how my eyes have to work harder for the glorious make benefit of design.

After spending some time some years ago on accessibility related work, it became clear to me that while obviously the accessibility is the key for handicapped users, the thought-through accessibility (vs. just "get a screenreader") on a project frequently results in the improved design that is better (like in particular cleaner and simpler in appearance and interaction flow) for the regular non-handicapped users too.

If anyone is looking for a tool to assist on this, the link leads to w3c, which has links directly to some free resources:

https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...

Hi VA4FXP,

I'm sorry about that. We'll see what we can do to address this problem.

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