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Eveonline website readability
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Edah Puss
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-09-12 22:50:29 UTC
Hello,

My Problem:

Reading the more 'wordy' parts of the eve website, namely the devblogs, is difficult due to unintentional eye watering and pain caused by the high contrast of white text on a black background. After a particularly long devblog reading, my eyes literally (and i mean literally) hurt. To alleviate this, I have found that I can select all the text with my mouse so that it highlights in a different colour, but this is obviously (to quote the Pope) "sub-optimal".

My Potential Solution:

An option be created to allow the reader to choose a different colour scheme, such as the tried-and-tested black text on a white background for example, to combat the mental and physiological discomfort caused by this website design.


Post Poast Notes:
Unfortunately, I suspect that I may be the only person who suffers from discomfort caused by this choice of colours, and I am now fully prepared for the inevitable "harden up wuss" comments, but thought it may be a good idea to bring this issue up anyway.

Thank you for the generous use of your precious time by reading this poast.
Icy One
The Executives
#2 - 2014-09-14 16:09:27 UTC
You could try an extension for your browser than allows you to change the style to match your preferences.

One for Chrome is called Stylish https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylish/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en

It would be helpful if you knew a little about website styling (CSS) but with just a few lines I ended up with: http://i.imgur.com/E23AafK.png

It also works on the forums: http://i.imgur.com/b6Qnq9m.png

This was achieved by setting up a new style and using the following: http://i.imgur.com/579hHmF.png


There are issues with the way I have done this since it just changes all fonts and backgrounds on the page so some elements on the page may not display correctly.

You could take some time doing just the elements you want and end up with something you could keep on all the time.

If you need a hand with CSS then http://www.w3schools.com/css/ is a good place to start.