Ask HN: Why isn't the Hacker News site accessible?

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It receives 38 on google's lighthouse audit. A #828282 Foreground with a #F6F6EF background is nearly impossible to read. Please fix it!

Does anyone else have issues?

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You can always use a CSS re-styler or a screenreader.

I believe the intent is for the user's focus on the article rather than the comment. Google Lighthouse reports are meant to be suggestive rather than to be treated as gospel.

Google Lighthouse do use the standards that we have to follow as a baseline though, which makes the suggestions bear weight.

More concretely, WCAG 2.0 [1] requires a contrast for 4.5:1 for text, and hacker news with it's #F6F6EF background and #828282 has a contrast of 3.54:1, quite far below the WCAG treshold.

This would result in a fine for situations where you are bound by law to follow the WCAG standard.

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

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