My Blog Fails Accessibility Tests and That's Okay

Some indieweb folks seem to be concerned with accessibility and readability of their site recently, so I figured what the hell. I ran this blog against WAVE, which is a tool by WebAIM, and yeah… It ain’t pretty. My blog scored 4 out of 10. But as I started reading more into the issues, I realized fixing those would be going against what I enjoyed doing with the website and at times counterproductive. I’ll start with the biggest issue I saw with my blog: glaring, angry red “very low contrast” errors. I recently changed my blog theme to solarized. Solarized is an attempt (and I believe a successful one, as I’m pleased with the results) to standardize my less-contrasting colors1 with a known theme. Low contrast on purpose? Yes. It’s an issue I personally have, where harsh contrast makes text glow (“ghost text”). It’s called halation. I’ve always preferred less contrast in my own notes (my markdown files, then TiddlyWiki, then Emacs), and my blog follows this suite. So in short, the low…