
Journal Journal: Unreadable and annoying pages
Since some months ago, my preferred color scheme is white/light text over black/dark background, so I changed everything to match that. The XFCE theme, the color settings for claws-mail, and Firefox default colors.
The last one opened the Pandora's Box. I picked white text, yellow for new links, lime for visited ones, and a black background, instead of the predefault dark over light combination.
Accordingly to the specifications, this should work. There's also a W3C QA Tip about colors.
But, actually, there are lots of sites rendering unusable. Fortunately, some of the affected sites have good webmasters and admins: issues with Mozillazine and Gentoo websites were fixed after being reported.
But the world isn't perfect and there are sites which, having been warned about the issue, weren't fixed. I am also keeping a list of the broken sites I browse so I can report the issues when possible.
At the moment, one of the most annoying issues is with Google. Not the search engine, that's one of the two Google sites without troubles.
I checked Groups, Calendar, Orkut, GMail and Docs&Spreadsheets. All of them have issues with colors not being set. I've also posted a message I can't read because of this, at the "Is Something Broken" Google forum: Colors @ groups.google.com and other Google pages.
A message like this one was sent to webmaster@google.com, but I've got no reply to any of the messages, maybe I've to browse the (unreadable) google help pages so I can find a better way to expose the issue.
Another example is SAPO, a portuguese site, which didn't react to the report (it was just forwarded to the involved department).
It seems it's needed to add a step after "check your page with two or more browsers", the "check it with a different color scheme"...