On Fri, Nov 17, 2017 at 10:30:21AM +1030, Simon Lees wrote: > > > On 17/11/17 10:08, jaquilina wrote: > > Hi guys this is something I can contribute to in terms of website. and I > > can even host it if you all so desire. Question is do you want this > > built off a framework, such as wordpress where it will be easy to > > include a forums section or something custom built? > > > > I think that given doku is already so heavily integrated into everything > all we really need to do is update its style sheets. We can probably set > up doku to have a dark on light stylesheet and a light on dark where > users can choose which they prefer.
The latter would be a nice feature if it's easy enough to implement within the existing framework, although note there are tons of "night mode" browser extensions out there that change white-on-black into black-on-white, so if it isn't easy, well there's other (probably better) ways for users to achieve it. Bryce > > On 2017-11-16 22:26, Stephen Houston wrote: > >> +1 I've been saying we need a new website bad. And one that is sleek, > >> modern, and yes white. Time to look up to date and kept with the times. > >> You will notice nearly every major linux distribution and nearly all > >> major > >> linux software websites are in the confines of what you describe. Simple, > >> flat, white background and black text, sharp but small images that are > >> mostly subtle, and responsive design to look good across devices. The > >> reason being that this is proven to be the easiest on the eyes and the > >> most > >> pleasing to the reader as you said. > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017, 3:58 PM Cedric Bail <ced...@ddlm.me> wrote: > >> > >>> 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. 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