There are no words in the English language I could scream to drown you out

[sovay]

So I got home to discover the latest code push from Dreamwidth has effectively broken the site for me. I left a comment to that effect. It does not look as though my comment will make a difference.

I understand accessibility is complicated. This journal and DW in general was one of the few things in my life right now that did not cause me active pain. It was in fact rather sustaining. That has just sharply ceased to be the case. I have no idea what to do. I left LJ for DW. I had planned to stay here until they turned out the lights because I trusted them not to hurt me. Now my eyes hurt. I am a text-oriented person who cannot comfortably interact with the text-based form of social media which is very nearly the whole of my life online. There's nowhere to go from here. (I can't even think about the effects on my Patreon.) I am tired of being a person whose needs are disposable. I am very, very, very not happy.

[edit 2020-07-26 1:21:00] I have temporarily reverted to the old style because the alternative appears to be verging on a migraine. And perhaps in a year the horse will learn to sing.

Comments

[owl]

The problem is that makes everything else on the internet too small. Mark said that 16pts is supposed to be the best size for a range of accessibility needs, but then in the comments somewhere Denise said most sites override the default browser size to be smaller but that was causing some unspecified problems for DW.

I think they should at least create a skin with as close to the old fonts and spacing as possible. It doesn't make a lot of sense to have huge text to match some accessibility standard that the rest of the internet isn't meeting (and that people will already have adjusted their browser defaults to work with).

[sovay]

I think they should at least create a skin with as close to the old fonts and spacing as possible.

I would love that. I really don't want to break the rest of my internet experience in order to have only somewhat less of a problem with DW.

[owl]

Looks like DW are attempting to fix the issues the new layout has with photo-sensitivity https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/83744.html
https://dw-maintenance.dreamwidth.org/83471.html

Hopefully whatever changes they make will work for you!