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

[drahardja@sfba.social]

@dannyman HTML *can* be semantic, but only if the web developer cared. Many websites now use an intermediary framework like React that renders everything as divs, without any further meaning.

Some websites are considerate enough to use semantic tags like <article> but this is by no means universal, or even widespread in my experience.

[cherylgk@mastodon.social]

@drahardja I have a similar problem in Zoom meetings. They have changed the chat box to dark mode, and Zoom keeps recommending ways to change it back to light mode that just don't work on my computer.

[catzilla@toot.cat]

@ghalldev @drahardja That’s so curious. I too have astigmatism and need reading glasses but I find light backgrounds extremely uncomfortable on the eyes.

Dark mode has been a god send to me. I don’t like white on black - I use dark grey and some very light shade of grey, and on my kobo I use a yellow tint.

I have trouble with brightness in general and wear transitions lenses, or very dark sunglasses when the day is too bright. That may be the reason the light mode bothers me so much.

[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.