Weeknotes 26:41

Dark mode I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had read Preethi Sam’s article, Embracing Dark Mode: A User’s Perspective on Accessibility. I wanted to take into account the perspectives that Preethi shared about using light mode and try to align a design with that perspective. I decided to start with a recent project to update the dark color scheme with what I had learned from the article. I chose the True Woman ’27 conference microsite. I have been working on some updates for it recently so I thought it would make a good test case. My thinking is that I could try things on the microsite and then later think about making more global changes to the site. I started by removing background color from different sections. I removed the background rules from the sections and put them into a media query for prefers-color-scheme: light. This allowed me to define the background-color for dark mode and not add any background color or gradients to the sections. I updated the background color…