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Veronica Olsen 🏳️‍🌈🇳🇴🌻

Phew. Spent a lot of time today, with help from one of the contributors, figuring out why the GUI of the Qt6-based beta of the next @novelwriter release freezes for a second or two with a white dialog when starting up on Windows.

Turns out the Unicode thin space (U+2009) does not exist in some Windows fonts, like Verdana. Looks like Qt6 halts drawing the text while finding a replacement glyph, which freezes up everything. But only the forst time it encounters it.

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#Web #usability and #accessibility ...

This is from crimethinc.com, but I'm not trying to pick particularly on them. There are many, many, many sites just as bad or worse.

This is a screenshot from an article on their site today, rendered in Firefox (Linux).

See the hair-thin font? See the fact that it's light grey on a white background? There's virtually no contrast between the text and the background.

This is an accessibility nightmare for those with any sort of vision problem. Picking the colour out of the screenshot (I didn't look at the CSS), it appears the text is basically 45% grey. This is ludicrous.

If the font face had some heft, it might be still be half-assed readable with contrast this low.

But as is... If I were to take my contacts out, I wouldn't even be able to tell that this screenshot *had* any of the normal-sized text in it, much less be able to read any of it.

Web designers, I beg you: please consider more than the appearance of what you're creating when you're making design choices.

Remember that not everyone is a 20- or 30-something with near-perfect vision.

Remember that people have cataracts or other types of eye cloudiness which necessitate high-contrast text to be able to read, even if they scale the fonts up by a huge amount.

Remember that vision degrades naturally in people in many ways other than "just wear glasses" can fix.

A partial screenshot of a browser window open to a web page about tyranny. The text is in an extremely thin/fine font face, and is light grey on a white background. It is difficult to read unless you are a 20- or 30-something young person with excellent vision. It's almost completely lacking in visual contrast. It's an accessibility nightmare.
#WebDesign#WebDesigner#design
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Rajeesh

ആര്‍ഐറ്റി-കചടതപ-സായാഹ്ന ഫൌണ്ടേഷനുകൾ നടത്തിയ ഓപ്പൺ ഫോണ്ട് മത്സരത്തിലെ വിജയികളെ പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചതോടൊപ്പം സമ്മാനാൎഹമായ ആറു പുതിയ സമഗ്രലിപി അക്ഷരസഞ്ചയങ്ങൾ സ്വതന്ത്രലൈസന്‍സിൽ പുറത്തിറക്കുകയും ചെയ്തിരിക്കുന്നു.

അതോടൊപ്പം, ഈ വൎഷത്തെ മത്സരം പാഠസംസ്കരണത്തിനുള്ള ലിപിസഞ്ചയള്‍ക്കാണു് (body text font), അതിന്റെ വിവരങ്ങൾ പ്രഖ്യാപിച്ചിട്ടുണ്ടു്.

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Soliloquies · Results of RIT-KaChaTaThaPa-Sayahna open font competition 2025In first of a kind movement to develop free and open source fonts for traditional Malayalam scripts, the Rachana Institute of Technology, KaChaTaThaPa Foundation and Sayahna Foundation had previous…
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AccordionBruce

@LinuxAndYarn @catsalad
The Accordion Ninjas are a joke that appeared on the other site ten years ago that made me and maybe two other accordionists (and maybe an organist) laugh

Years later I started making button/badges which have never sold tons — they’re so deeply inside 🪗 — but make me smile every time I see them

@luke helped make #Tango Ninja ones last year which dig the joke even deeper, but again 😹

They use the fab Accordion #Font you can encode messages with!
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Three round white button badges with Accordion register symbols with the little circles and dots on them. Each one looks a little bit like a ninja face with eyes. The first one with just two dots is labelled “ninja”. The second with two dots and one like a mouth is labelled “surprised ninja“. The third with just one.in the middle is labelled “cyclops ninja“.
Six round white button badges with Accordion register switches on them all of which look a little bit like round cartoon ninjas. The first one is labelled ninja with two dots for eyes. The second is surprise ninja which has one.like an open mouth. The third is “pirate ninja“ which has one dot on one side like it’s Missin an eye. The fourth is labelled “piñata ninja, which has a one dot for a mouth and no other dots so it looks like its eyes are covered. The fifth is the “cyclops ninja” with one dot in the middle of its face. And the last is the “ninja master“ which is a master switch symbol with five dots. Like it has all the eyes it can have.
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