RFC: A better theme for the OSSU CS website about computer-science HOT 2 CLOSED

Improves accessibility of the website.

This is a claim, but I don't see any evidence to support the claim. Accessibility is important.

I'm very skeptical that the hacker theme is more accessible:

• Large firms as well as universities care about accessibility and their websites look nothing like this theme.
• Green text on black background was the default for computer text for at least a decade. The world stopped using it. That's a good sign that it's not an accessible format.
• Monospaced print is standard (and useful) in code, which is why our current codeblocks are monospaced. But for general text, variable width font is what you will find in newspapers and textbooks (again, institutions that care about the accessibility of their text).

from computer-science.

I'm very skeptical that the hacker theme is more accessible:

• Large firms as well as universities care about accessibility and their websites look nothing like this theme.

• Green text on black background was the default for computer text for at least a decade. The world stopped using it. That's a good sign that it's not an accessible format.

• Monospaced print is standard (and useful) in code, which is why our current codeblocks are monospaced. But for general text, variable width font is what you will find in newspapers and textbooks (again, institutions that care about the accessibility of their text).

When I mentioned accessibility, I did so in regard to it being a dark theme, which can help some people with vision problems. But now that you mention these issues, I agree, the theme has several problems. Closing this RFC issue.

from computer-science.