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by eviks 485 days ago
> One piece of feedback was significant—many Edge users shared that text appeared "washed out" and that it didn't look consistent with text in other parts of Windows.

> Text looked washed out on Chrome on Windows pre-132.

> The team took this feedback seriously and did some investigation.

Wait, does "the team" have no eyes/visual tests of their own? How can you seriously make a claim about them taking it seriously when they failed to notice this degradation in the first place? Or, for that matter, that it took so long to fix

> It was evident that the text contrast value needed to increase, but data was needed to determine how much to adjust it.

No, you adjust first until it's not "evident" anymore and then waste years on consumer research

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Well, software engineers don't have that great vision usually...