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Responsive and accessible typography and why you should care

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33 pointsEleven_Wilson14 comments

There is something a little ironic to the last headline in an article that says "keep it simple" when the css rules are anything but.

Not disagreeing entirely with the premise, but compared to basic html ...

Hilariously this site is inaccessible to anyone with slight vision impairment. I have my phone font size enlarged, but the article ignores that setting using tiny unreadable light-grey-on-white text.

I’m not going to read TFA as the author clearly doesn’t actually know anything about the headline topic.

That's an issue I was not aware of. I'll transmit it to the people working on the blog, thank you for outlining it in your reply.

The article contains reasonable advice, the basics are covered.

It's quite ironic though, that a page about readability and accessibility uses gray text on a white background. For me it's well readable, but probably not for people with low vision.

At my ripe old age of…38…I am of the opinion that text could use a bit more contrast.

And not just the color—though bringing the color to #333333 does help a lot.

It’s in part that font. Low x-height. Small apertures and counters. It’s a bit fussy. Fortunately, it’s using a system font fallback, so once you strip out the webfoot and it renders in San Francisco on a Mac: looks great.

I also thought it was funny that a page about readability would have three different floating things on the page.

Typography is a silent tool that UX designers and developers can sometimes take for granted. There is much noise around this topic. Pixels? Are breakpoints enough to switch sizes across devices? Do we even need breakpoints at all?

This account, “Eleven_Wilson”, was created in 2016, but did not post any comments until 2020, and has only posted three comments since. All three comments consist solely of text copied verbatim from the linked articles. Also, all three of the commented articles are both submitted by this user, and are all on the same site, “Eleven Labs”, similar to the user name.

They submitted the post, and it appears as if they are giving a sort of one-line summary in the comments. At least that's what it looks like to me.

Yes, people do that sometimes, perhaps with the intention of giving an intro to the article and maybe not realizing that it comes across as promotional.

FWIW this submitter is definitely a legit HN user - we've been in contact via email - and this is a good article!

I did not interpret it as promotional. The text of the comments was so non-sequitur that I believed the account to be a straight-up bot account, posting random snippets from articles. It was only when I investigated further, when I saw that the same user also submitted all the articles, that I started to doubt my initial impression.

If we’re being very charitable, we might believe that. But this is also how I’ve seen many bot accounts behave, i.e. submitting random snippets of text from the featured article.

I believe being charitable is generally the best course of action.

Not to mention that another user (dang himself, no less) has chimed in and said they've been in contact with them, vouching for their legitimacy. Unless you think they've now got 2 bot accounts to trick us (one of which being dang)... Or maybe I'm a bot too!

I believe the other user, since I happen to know that the user “dang” is the moderator here on HN.

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