Accessibility woes

[Jason Knight]

This site and forums is very hard to use due to horrifically bad design choices. The use of white on light blue or orange in many places is outright illegible, the "kerning" of the font used on headings, menus, and buttons ranges from nonexistent to outright incompetent garbage, and the use of PX metrics (instead of EM/REM) in a lot of places results in a broken layout for users like myself who use a larger default than 1rem == 16px... such as my workstation where I have the default set to 24px, or my media center where it's 32px. 



When it comes to the colours, always be sure to check against WCAG minimums using tools such as:

https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/



And really if you use non-standard fonts, small sizes, or anything with "thin bars/slabs" you should treat "AAA Large" as the minimum since it's been almost two decades since the specifications were updated.



As to the font, I know you're trying to capture the vintage 8 bit experience, but a bit of tweaking of said font would/could go a long ways towards making it less of a ... mess. You've got it more along the lines of VIC=20 than you do 64/128/60- and for a lot of people that results in bad UX. 



Side note, always wanted to punch in the face whoever decided that the bars on lowercase letters like h should be 1 scanline shorter than the capital letters... I know it's "vintage commodore", that doesn't make it not be "vintage stupid" and a giant "Screw you" to usability. But then the same could be said of the C64's light blue on blue default text.

[Cyber]

Thank you for your feedback! It is greatly appreciated. We actually working on a different design, so we are looking forward for a lot more feedback in future.