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by Myndex 3y ago
There's also a curated linktree of key resources. https://linktr.ee/Myndex
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by Myndex 3y ago
It will be moving to its own URL soon: apcacontrast.com That URL works now, as a redirect, but will become the host soon.
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by Myndex 3y ago
My guess here, to help it make sense, perhaps think in terms of the luminous excitation of "blacklight paint"... If she's having strong reactions, probably to metamers under the right lighting in a real-world environment and
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by Myndex 3y ago
Hey @zauguin and @kreskin, I am sorry about the licensing issue, it is only temporary during the public beta. And I am providing some exceptions, if you need, send an email to legal@myndex.com Just can't do an MIT type license right
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by Myndex 3y ago
Hi @seanwilson, standards work is nothing BUT compromises it seems. The reason for the public beta is to find concerns like these. One of the aspects of APCA that is unique are the many use-case levels that improve design flexibility by f
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by Myndex 3y ago
Hi @jjcm and @seanwilson First of all thank you for these comments, I do proactively seek out comments like these as there are too few at the official APCA discussion forum https://github.com/Myndex/SAPC-APCA/disc
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by Myndex 3y ago
WCAG 2.x was neither peer reviewed nor empirically tested—true. However this is not the case for the candidate for WCAG 3, which is APCA. APCA has been in public beta testing for two and a half years, is the subject of ongoing empirical stu
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Small Text Is Medium’s Large Fail(tangledweb.xyz)
1 points by Myndex 3y ago|1 comments
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by Myndex 3y ago
The Medium platform has a lot of good features going for it, yet it literally ignores visual accessibility. For a platform that is entirely based around readable content, one would think that it’d be close to State of the Art, instead of th
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by Myndex 3y ago
Nate Baldwin (the developer behind Adobe Leonardo) created the site, and did a pretty amazing job, taking an extremely complicated and nuanced topic (color) and breaking it down into small, bite-size pieces for this encyclopedic reference.
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by Myndex 3y ago
Nate developed the site before AI like GPT were available. Color is a very difficult subject—but the site is filled with the references that it's relating to, so if you want the deeper dive, go to those multi-hundred page references. A
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by Myndex 3y ago
There is some conflation here between an art definition and the colorimetric definition. In colorimetry: Luminance is a spectrally weighted measure of physical light, it is not a perception, and luminance is linear to physical light. Lightn
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by Myndex 3y ago
!! Thank you for mentioning... and to add, human perception of contrast is actually driven more by the spatial characteristics (size, weight, thickness) than by the distance between two colors. This is a key reason that contrast measures th
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by Myndex 4y ago
Clearing up a few misconceptions regarding color and contrast in design.
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The Realities and Myths of Contrast and Color(smashingmagazine.com)
2 points by Myndex 4y ago|1 comments
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by Myndex 4y ago
Thank you for posting
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by Myndex 4y ago
I can say it has been immensely helpful reading through the comments here and I thank you all for your input. If you want to read further regarding the readability research project, there's a catalog of resources and further articles a
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by Myndex 4y ago
Then you missed the key part of the article as nowhere in the article did I ever advocate #fff/#000
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by Myndex 4y ago
Yes often the case
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by Myndex 4y ago
I guess what I wrote about adaptation didn't some across as clearly as I had hoped. Adapting to the ambient light and reading on paper which is never more than 90% DIFFUSE reflectance (typically 80% for paperbacks, and 70% for newspape
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by Myndex 4y ago
NOWHERE, absolutely nowhere in the article did I suggest using #fff/#000 On the contrary, I highly recommend that for light backgrounds the, background directly under body text be something like #e6e2dd. I explain this in the article.
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by Myndex 4y ago
The simple answer is that this one article received tens of thousands of reads in a day. My other sites, not so much,
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by Myndex 4y ago
Medium does not allow the author to set the text color at all.
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by Myndex 4y ago
Try https://www.myndex.com/APCA/
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by Myndex 4y ago
No choice thanks to Medium.
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by Myndex 4y ago
Unfortunately, Medium does not allow setting the text color — they set it automatically based on the background... After trying several combinations, I've mostly given up with that site and am planning on moving to another.
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by Myndex 4y ago
I also use GitHub pages, and other sites, and my own independent sites. But, none get the level of readers — this one article on Medium received tens of thousands of reads. For some of the other materials in teh current research, see the ca
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by Myndex 4y ago
Yea, I do that often.
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by Myndex 4y ago
Medium is lame for more reasons than you might imagine, I have not had the time to move things to another site though. If you want, my catalog of current contrast research resources is listed at git.myndex.com
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by Myndex 4y ago
It's Medium's CMS. Author has no control over the text color, and I've been experimenting with combinations trying to find something useful. An effort in futility. I'm planning on moving my articles to my own site... the

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