Hi,

As some of you may have noticed we are doing some improvement to our 
documentation and trying to get things easier when starting with EFL. One of 
the main issue we are facing is that our website is definitively hard to read 
for a lot of people. So Paul went on trying to figure out why.

The first problem is actually the constrast ratio between background and text. 
According to W3C accessibility guidelines ( 
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#contrast-minimum )it should be 4.5:1 at least. 
Our colors are #818181 for the text and #303030 which give a contrast ratio of 
3.39:1 ( https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ ). And it is worth for 
people with vision impairment where it should be 7:1.

Black on white or white on black would work, but according to some random 
person on Internet (could not find a scientific evidence/citation of it) a 
white background force your pupils to contracts, making it easier to focus your 
eye with a smaller pupil (much like the depth of field is increased with a 
smaller camera lens). This could be shown by a test carried on 136 subject, 
where the people reading black text on a white background scored better than 
any other combination of colors ( 
http://lite.mst.edu/media/research/ctel/documents/LITE-2003-04.pdf ).

The second problem are our links that are difficult to tell wether they have 
been clicked on or not. Also they have a slight glow around the links that 
makes them harder to read. The best link on the subject we can point to would 
be https://www.nngroup.com/articles/guidelines-for-visualizing-links/ .

So it would be best to come up with a more accessible design for our web site. 
If someone want to suggest a new design within those constraint, it would be 
great, but I would suggest to look at 
https://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/documentation/ or at http://doc.qt.io/ . They 
are simple and work well in term of readability. We could easily go with 
something like that. What do you think ?

Cedric
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