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I wish everything had a dark UI
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Are there any accessibility concerns with entirely dark UIs? Wondering if the only reason they aren’t the default is historical.
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Some people (such as myself) with bad night vision have trouble seeing low-light UIs. White-on-black UIs like dark mode are literally invisible to me; I can't see anything on the screen. So they're unusable.
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Let me tell you how much I get of live coding demos where they use Vim in default colors: it is nothing. I see a blank screen for 10 minutes while they fuck around. It's very frustrating.
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I can’t read white text on dark backgrounds very well, get fatigued really fast, gets all blurry. Afaik, this is far more common a problem than light backgrounds.
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Some people like myself have problem with that kind of contrast and it burns into our retina very fast. Its like lookin into sun. But instead of circle I begin to see stripes everywhere preventing me from reading of the content further.
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Aaah I was wondering what caused this for me and if anyone else had the same thing! I code in light on dark, but quite low contrast. When using iBooks/kindle I cannot use the night mode for all the stripes I get. Thanks!
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If you want historical, most older terminals were light on dark. It wasn't until GUIs appeared in the 1990s that light backgrounds became common, the big one before that was the original Mac.
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I wish there was a system wide switch or hotkey to a light UI for every open app as soon as the sun starts so come out.
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I see text a little bit blurry with dark uis, for example. Doesn’t happen to me with white ui and enough contrast
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