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by vundercind 743 days ago
For your own messages that you wrote and sent, not anyone else’s, and the contrast lower down on the screen is fine, it’s only at the top of the screen when it’s doing the fade-to-indicate-you-can-scroll-for-more thing that it runs afoul of contrast minimums.
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pseudalopex 743 days ago
> the contrast lower down on the screen is fine

Apple say no.[1]

[1] https://medium.com/@krvoller/how-iphone-violates-apples-acce...

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vundercind 743 days ago
1) The examples in those screenshots are way lower contrast than my actual messaging app on the real device. Maybe it wasn’t that bad when they did the calculations, but it’s not a great sign.

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).

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pseudalopex 742 days ago
The examples looked very close to a real device to me. What is the contrast ratio on your device?

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.

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vundercind 742 days ago
The error is in the texts in one of the images. Observing that someone doesn’t appear to be familiar with the thing they’re writing about isn’t a logical fallacy.
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pseudalopex 728 days ago
They explained correctly. They illustrated correctly. They appeared familiar even if they used the wrong preposition in filler text.

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.

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