I mean, we could do that, but the reward would be too low compared to the cost because the amount of people with such disability is too low compared to healthy amount. I believe a color scheme or font should not, by default, take into account color blindness or dyslexia.
It can really hurt if you cannot be taken into account though. Yes, I want to be taken into account, but not by default. Preface: I am autistic, and live in a non-autistic world. Solarized is a fairly low-contrast theme to begin with and increasing its contrast while maintaining its general aesthetic would have been an interest goal but this article doesn't seem to actually be interested in doing that. they didn't know much about color before, but please don't claim this is an "improvement" if you really only tried to increase the light-dark contrast of the text against the background. It's nice that the author admits they had to learn about color theory in order to approach this, i.e. If you learn about color theory as a hobby, please also take the time to learn about color vision and before making claims about accessibility also learn about how color vision deficiencies affect perception. Solarized wasn't very accessible to begin with (few syntax highlighting color palettes are) but this is just worse. But with the new palette I now struggle with red, orange AND green, and magenta and cyan also have become less distinct from each other.
I'm severely green-blind and in the earlier screenshots of the Solarized palette I already hat issues telling red and orange, and blue and violet apart. "Fixing the lightness and only modifying hue and chroma" is not a recipe for good accessibility and the screenshots demonstrate it. It's funny how the last section with the screenshots mentions "preserving accessibility".
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