Avoid Accessibility Problems With High Contrast Colors
Color contrast could be a big usability issue. The problem is as simple as your users will not be able to read the information offered by your site.
Flixster is a good example of intentional bad design. Flixster is an online community for movie lovers, it has movie reviews and ratings, the site has many fans. But of course, those fans have a very good vision, I mean, it is really hard to read reviews.
Flixster use pictures taken from the movies as background for reviews. This is an accessibility problem and you should better use high contrast colors, like black and white.
Imagine you pay so much for that valuable information and your users can not read it! One more example, tiny letters on a picture background. Wear your glasses…
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Disclaimer: with this kind of article I want to point out usability and interface problems some sites could have. Please do not take this as an attack, take it as a free advice. I would like to make clear that this design problems could happen for many reasons, including lack of time or money.
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