they still do white text on a lime green background despite every accessibility guidance to the contrary. if I used white text on a lime green background at my job I would be reprimanded. this is malicious compliance.
Can’t tell me that’s done in good faith either.
That is the alternative on iMessage.
The bubble is not blue.
Edit: to be fair the text is also not "white"
The approximate (sRGB) color codes are:
"green" #39ff5a (57,255,90)
"white" #fdfdfd (253,253,253)
"grey" #d8d8d8 (216,216,216)
"blue grey" #aeb9cc (174,185,204)
"blue" #218aff (33,138,255)
> "green" #39ff5a (57,255,90) ...
This list of colors is both inaccurate and very inaccurate.
In fact, there is not one single green (or blue) color in iMessage, and anyone who says there is is mistaken.
1. The bubble colors show in a gradient from the bottom of the screen (newer messages have more contrast) to the top of the screen (older messages have less contrast). The standard green at the bottom for the newest message is measured with the macOS built-in digital color meter from a screenshot taken on my iPhone is [51,199,89]. The standard green at the top is [56,228,100].
2. The OP is just being foolish on the internet. Enabling the increased contrast accessibility mode in iOS settings turns the green at the bottom into a dark forest which very easily passes for anyone who actually needs it and isn't just talking out of their ass on the internet to bash iPhones without having used one.
> to be fair the text is also not "white"
macOS digital color meter says the text is white [255,255,255].
Also, I'd note for modern iOS even just in dark mode the writer is in "black/white", while it's your own messages that are "blue" or "green" depending on whether its RCS so readability is less of an issue.
Apple say no.[1]
[1] https://medium.com/@krvoller/how-iphone-violates-apples-acce...
2) The author believes Android users’ messages show up green, so I wonder if they’ve ever even used an iPhone.
3) The messages are in fact not hard to read and you can crank up contrast system-wide if that or anything else gives trouble (and if these do, you’ll need improved contrast to browse the web, anyway).
The author identified correctly the message colors. "When you send a text to someone, your message floats to the conversation area in a blue or electric green message bubble (depending on whether you’re texting with another iPhone/iPad/Mac user or some other device)."
Many iPhone users make the error you believed the author made. And the criticism would be valid if they never used an iPhone. Please do not use logical fallacies.
Calling the green bubbles not hard to read is your opinion. Opposed by other opinions and Apple's guidelines. Not fact.
The system high contrast mode makes some other apps less accessible. It makes weather icons all white for example.
Your claim about web browsing was false.
Texts can mean individual messages or conversations. The preposition could have been confusing but not an error.
Saying something many familiar people say does not appear unfamiliar.
It is not necessary to use an iPhone to read users' complaints, read Apple's guidelines, and measure contrast. This is a genetic fallacy.
There are plenty of regulatory bodies, especially the EU, who have forced Apple to do things it doesn't want to.
They are making noise about interoperability of communications and rather than have the US (we don't have RCS over here, so it's meaningless for us) make rules that forces their hand in a manner that may not be how Apple want to do things, they get out ahead to reduce the power of the argument.
The fact that it's a shitty implementation is the feature.
The majority of people have no problem with the contrast of the Messages app, or at least it's never been a complaint that I've heard. That's not to say we shouldn't consider those who do have problems, but, again, there are options for those people.