I am begging website owners to always provide a light mode.

[ghalldev@mastodon.social]

@catzilla @drahardja That is interesting re: brightness, I have the opposite problem I have trouble in the dark and I never wear sunglasses.

Oddly I will occasionally switch to dark mode if it’s a rainy day because I get headaches.

Eyes are weird.

[ivanuria@neopaquita.es]

@drahardja

Nah, that's not React's fault. That's developer's. You can use semantic HTML in react as well.

@dannyman

[reddog@syzito.xyz]

@drahardja
I'm far from expert at web stuff. But I will try to implement this on my sites.

[chiffchaff@tech.lgbt]

@drahardja and also light-on-dark because some folk have so many floaters it's not worth the effort of reading in light mode.

[siterelenby@transfem.social]

@drahardja@sfba.social

I will always loudly advocate for every site to support both, default to the user's setting, and have a prominent control to switch theme.

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@Reddog

[wanderinghermit@mindly.social]

@drahardja

And not just dark mode/light mode. Some folks build their sites with light gray on dark gray or the reverse. Cataracts reduce one's ability to decode low contrast; before I had my cataract surgery I could not read sites with gray on gray text, whether light or dark mode.

[dr_barnowl@topspicy.social]

@drahardja

You should try the Dark Reader plugin

Despite the name, you can compel it to make sites light.

Dark Reader — dark theme for every website

Enable dark mode (night mode) on all websites

Dark Reader (darkreader.org)

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@dr_barnowl I’ll give it a try!

[daj@gofer.social]

@drahardja I completely agree. If a site is dark only I just leave. I can't be bothered with it.

I've moaned a few times.
https://forkingmad.blog/dark-web-sites/

[tknarr@mstdn.social]

@drahardja Better yet, have them honor the browser foreground and background colors (which follow the system theme) and font selection. That would simplify a lot of accessibility issues.