[Haskell-community] Design Proposal for Haskell.org

[David Deutsch]

Thanks, Gershom,

I've added another commit and everything is good to go from my end.

best regards,
David

On 31.05.2016 01:14, Gershom B wrote:
> David -- that sounds about right to me (in terms of people liking the
> broad strokes and raising issues that are important but don't need to
> be in scope for this initial phase).
>
> If you have anything else you want to do first, let me know, otherwise
> I'll go ahead and accept the pull and, barring any further discussion
> that stands in the way, redeploy sometime this week.
>
> We can then proceed in a lot of directions from there :-)
>
> Sound good all?
>
> Cheers,
> Gershom
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 6:04 PM, David Deutsch <skOre at skore.de> wrote:
>> Hi Alexander,
>>
>> Thank you for the kind words.
>>
>> I've checked the color contrast and it seems to range between 3.2 and 4.7
>> with a mean contrast at 4.0, which borders on problematic (the
>> recommendation is 4.5), but doesn't seem terribly inaccessible, especially
>> since it's only used on a handful of links and not the entire text.
>>
>> I will add this to my list of "along the way" improvements for a final run,
>> trying to bump the contrast ratio to a more steady 4.5+.
>>
>>
>> Since you appear to be keen on accessibility: If you have specific issues
>> that you would like to raise to and, preferably, advice on how to improve
>> them, I'm all ears. I'm pointing that out because "doesn't /look/
>> accessible" (my emphasis) doesn't give me that much to work with and I hope
>> it's obvious that following WCAG2.0 "as strictly as possible" is not
>> feasible for a volunteer.
>>
>> While I agree that accessibility is a very important aspect to pay attention
>> to, I would appreciate not getting too lost in details like this at this
>> stage in the process. The intent of my PR is to replace the current site
>> design, not iron out every possible issue with it (similar contrast concerns
>> are valid for the current site, for example the community section - that we
>> fixed... by removing it - goes as low as 2.3 in terms of contrast) and
>> certainly not attain a "universal design" (which, admittedly, I'm not sure I
>> fully understand the meaning of).
>>
>>
>> That being said, I appreciate that my PR apparently continues to foster a
>> level of bikeshedding (with occasional compliments thrown in) that seems to
>> suggest that there isn't much objection to it ;-) So - since my time is
>> limited, I hope we can move ahead with the PR some time soon and move the
>> more detailed analysis to followup tickets.
>>
>> best regards,
>> David
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 30.05.2016 10:56, Alexander Berntsen wrote:
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>>> The pink on purple doesn't look accessible. I.e. there is too low
>>> contrast. Please try to make sure WCAG 2.0 is adhered to as strictly
>>> as possible in order to ensure universal design that doesn't
>>> discriminate against people with disabilities.
>>>
>>> Thanks to David for working on this!
>>> - -- Alexander
>>> alexander at plaimi.net
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