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by chipotle_coyote 1757 days ago
We tend to focus only on the accessibility issues caused by low contrast, but very high contrast also makes reading more difficult, especially for people with dyslexia -- and it's also more likely to cause eye strain if it's a full-length article.

At any rate, "it's okay for text not to be pure black and backgrounds not to be pure white" has become my tiny hill to die on.

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Maybe browsers should go back to using a gray background by default, but less gray than one Mosaic and the other used.