Re: Your RSS Reader Is Robbing You 17 ▲ Christian Cleberg 69 days ago · Tech · hide · 3 comments To summarize my answer to Antonio's post: good! I don't read posts in my feed reader to look at styles, I do it to consume content - to read their thoughts. I use my feed reader because it's configured exactly how I like it. The colors are tweaked to a palette that's pleasing to my eyes and doesn't cause strain. The font family, font size, and other elements are customizable and configured exactly how I like them. I can't tell you how many times I've opened a great blog post and struggled to read it and had to enable Reader Mode in my browser just to get through it. HTML is great because it's a structured markup where we can disregard the web server's custom styles and apply our own. In fact, there are whole communities around custom style sheets to mold the web into your own comfortable space. Sure, there are great looking blogs out there. But honestly? There are far more poorly-styled blogs or blogs that are fine, but conflict with my own sense of style or eye comfort. Keep it up,… Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here. Antonio Santos @otolock@mastodon.social 69 days ago [-] @cmc you raise a good point! George’s post highlights some of those accessibility issues I also wish people took into consideration https://unattributed.cc/accessibility-rant-reader-mode cmc @cmc@c.im 69 days ago [-] @otolock absolutely! accessibility is always a top priority for me too and I wish it were prioritized a bit higher in these cases where we expect people to read all sorts of content and pages on our sites Gordon @snowgoon@mastodon.social 69 days ago [-] @cmc I agree, that's why I use an RSS Reader too, I just want the content (and some websites aren't great to read even putting accessibility issues aside).I did run my own website through an accessibility checker and looks like I have some work to do to make it better, so if nothing else, this was all a good prompt.
