{"id":936,"date":"2012-12-28T03:58:15","date_gmt":"2012-12-28T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=936"},"modified":"2022-05-14T19:09:44","modified_gmt":"2022-05-14T18:09:44","slug":"seriously-wtf-with-high-contrast-websites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewhope.co.uk\/Blog\/seriously-wtf-with-high-contrast-websites\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously &#8230;. WTF with high contrast websites??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is more of a real pet peeve then anything else, some people may think they look cool, but they absolutely boil my piss. What is it with people using bright text on dark backgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>Now only does it severely tire out your eyes it hurts your head trying to read it<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a site I found&#8230; I was reading this page as I&#8217;m interested in cracking after a google search. I&#8217;m not knocking the site, looks interesting, albeit the choice of background colours pissed me off<\/p>\n<p>Read this site from start to finish on this link, the flicker back to google. I bet you see lines and probably have a sore head<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frameloss.org\/2011\/07\/03\/the-gpu-killed-the-password\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CLICK HERE FOR A HEADACHE!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Remember people, consider your readers too!!!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Update : Just checked the site and the author appears to have changed the scheme. 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