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Doesn't address the problem, but may be of help: try the "Stylish" extension in Chrome. Allows you to define custom stylesheets, and to specify which websites those sheets should apply to. It's not perfect but it is possible to create a generic "high contrast" sheet that mostly works on most sites, (and works perfectly for some).
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Thanks for that! I didn't know about that one... I'll monkey with it; perhaps it approaches the CSS doinking that I was talking about! 
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I like “dark mode”, and use it when it’s available. I wish cp had a dark mode.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Dark Reader works here on CP and most of the time elsewhere. Have to turn it off occasionally.
Brave Web Browser.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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#realJSOP wrote: “dark mode”
In this household, "dark mode" is when I turn off the monitor for the night. 
In all seriousness, I try to like dark mode, but the problem is, on a bright day, with the sun beaming through a window, I can't see anything on a dark monitor. Dark backgrounds only make the dust layer more visible.
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It's not just the text. A lot of sites have low contrast on textboxes so it's very difficult to figure out where the entry fields are. Making me guess is not consumer friendly.
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Kiddie coders and a product of the me-myself-and-I generation.
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Member 12924312 wrote:
Kiddie coders and a product of the me-myself-and-I generation.
Amen.
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The software that my company makes has contrast issues. There was a design fad a few years ago where light grey should be used, never white; and dark grey used, never black. Throw in some red-on-dark-grey error messages, and the results are unreadable. I'm in my late 40s and trying to convince people in a company where everyone is in their 20s that there is a problem is challenging.
I think eventually, especially now that baby boomers are getting old, high contrast will become the norm. I remember trying to sell "accessibility features" 10 years ago was almost impossible. No one wanted to invest in something only a few people would use. Then smart phones became commonplace, and all of a sudden everyone wanted adaptable websites.
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Yvan Rodrigues wrote: trying to convince people in a company where everyone is in their 20s that there is a problem is challenging.
I think eventually, especially now that baby boomers are getting old,
What's needed in our industry is basic market research and beta testing: study the demographics, match with the target audience, and do live product surveys! If you had 100 people in a room testing your app, and 20% of them said "I can't read this!", that would be Hugely (Bigly, even!) unacceptable. With the boomer population trending the way it is, you'll see higher numbers than that!
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My father-in-law is in his mid 80s and has lost a little over 30% of his visual acuity to glaucoma.
As others have said, faint outlines on text boxes, grey text, particularly on pastel backgrounds, and tiny-type are his biggest challenges - and in the age of lockdowns pages and apps with those features are the only way to stay connected to family, friends and shopping. The ADA standards need to embraced by UI developers - at least to the point of providing an button for "Make this page readable" or a "Simplified View" to unclutter an app and allow for larger text and buttons. [His skin is quite dry at his age and his fingers are calloused from decades of farming. A stylus is only a marginal help as his hands shake a bit too much to accurately pick tiny spots on the screen of his phone and laptop with either a fingertip or a stylus pen.
It's maddeningly frustrating for a still-independent adult to have to put up with faddish, self-absorbed designs.
Yes, I know it's a brand thing, but designers need to consider the entire audience - even the ones that aren't part of the "target" demographic. He loves the internet - that's the only way he can see his great-grandchildren and the other members of his family, who all live out of state.
-Bob
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Teeny tiny fonts and low contrast are the natural result of equipping 25-year-old developers with gigantic monitors. They should have to program on their phones. When they are 50, they will regret the choices they made, but in the meantime it's a form of age discrimination.
The world is just arriving at the point where display power consumption is proportional to how white the screen is. Low-contrast screens will, I hope, become known as power-hungry, and the developers will finally be permitted to override the industrial design people.
Personally, the use of low contrast text displays is so pervasive that I keep my display in inverse-video mode, because the alternative is staring into a bright white lightbulb.
Pitchforks and torches ready! Storm the Corporate towers! Death to designers!
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SeattleC++ wrote: Teeny tiny fonts and low contrast are the natural result of equipping 25-year-old developers with gigantic monitors. They should have to program on their phones.
ROFL! Couldn't agree more! But wait!--- maybe the "designers" are all in cahoots with the display mfgrs to force everyone to buy bigger monitors!!
SeattleC++ wrote: Pitchforks and torches ready! Storm the Corporate towers! Death to designers!
HAHAHA! I'm sure you're on somebody's watch-list now! 
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B. L. Zeebub wrote: Couldn't agree more! But wait!--- maybe the "designers" are all in cahoots with the display mfgrs to force everyone to buy bigger monitors!!
I don't think so, but it might explain why cell phones are getting too big to put into your pocket.
B. L. Zeebub wrote: SeattleC++ wrote: Pitchforks and torches ready! Storm the Corporate towers! Death to designers!
HAHAHA! I'm sure you're on somebody's watch-list now!
For pitchforks and torches? They'll never take me alive.
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Too many templates and too many amateur "web masters".
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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I regularly peruse the lists of films at Apple trailers. In particular the Genres list. For some unknown mysterious reason Apple presents the names of the genres in the list of films in exactly the same font and font size and font color as the names of the films. So is "Thriller" a genre or a Science Fiction film? So how do I find a particular genre? I have written to them many times over many months suggesting they display the genre name in a different font or size or color with no effect.
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Great pointer! Thanks for that!
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Is a pig that does Karate a pork chop?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Not sure, but they do like to ham it up while practicing Ba-Con-Do.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Is Barbie into Ken-Do?
If a developer learns Kung Fu does he need to learn Kung Bar as well?
Is karate a Canadians response to “What vegetable are you eating?”
Is it Gentile Jitsu when you aren’t fighting the guy in a yarmulke?
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Are their airiel kicks described as swine flu?
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When a pig needs money, does it hock its ham?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Sounds like a monday morning.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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