Comment by stevetron

I have found myself in my own private war against web sites over text viewability. Gievn that I am a longtime-coder, and longtime-electronics engineer, I had a life-altering experience a few years ago: as I was laying out a new circuit board design via CAD for a longtime client, a board which I would also have to write all the code for, my eyesight went all-goofy <technical term?>. I had to depend on family members to get me an emergency admission to an eye clinic, where I learned I had a detached-retina in one eye, was told it must hurt, and they didn't have anyone on-staff that could fix it. A few years later, and I have my vision blocked in that same eye due to a cataract, they won't do surgery becuase I'm 'allergic to lasers' and I need to shift to audio books. Huh. No, here's what I need from web pages and web browsers: an end to de-emphasised background comments that appear as light-gray on white background, and a quick button that let's me view everything in undecorated font Libre Sans (Libre mono for code), Boldface, and 14-pixel. The boldface is a huge sticking point, and I really need it. And nobody supports it :( My eyesight is like viewing everything through a 'snowstorm whiteout'. The thin strokes of non-Boldface are nearly invisible, and size-alone doesn't quite fix it enough. Then there are the web site that insist on havign a hard-lock on low-contrasty themes......they seem to feel their precious theme to be more important than the word.