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Tumblr Accessibility UI Update Toggle
This is a userscript for Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey that will disable the new UI update by default, and add a toggle to re-enable/disable it in your Dashboard settings page.
Everything is reverted to how it was before the update and there’s no delay on page load.
Make sure you have Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey installed on your browser, it is needed to be able to load the script.
Install the script from here:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/377296-tumblr-accessibility-ui-update-toggle
The xkit extension is very much appreciated (especially the speed at which it was released) but this, for my Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey friends, this is the real deal.
Why?
Because there’s no delay on page load. …which means there’s no brief flash of the dark background and saturated icons.
And as with all scripts, if any part of it bothers you (such as having the toggle installed into your settings page), then you can cut that part of the code out with ease.
Tumblr is getting a facelift
Some time ago we took a long, hard look at how we stacked up to the recommendations outlined in the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium. This is the initiative that sets standards for accessibility for people who may need assistance using the internet. It outlines steps to take and tools to use to create as seamless of an experience online as possible, whether you have auditory, visual, or neurological disabilities, are using a limited device, are on a slow connection with limited bandwidth, or…well, a whole bunch of other reasons.
The result of that long, hard look? Not great. We needed to make sure Tumblr was accessible to anyone who wants to use it.
Over the past few weeks we’ve been making changes to do just that. Our inaccessible menus are more accessible, we fixed our poorly described elements, and increased overall readability. You can read more about all that in our most recent @javascript post about the mobile web.
Part of making Tumblr more accessible involved upping the color contrast in our UI, most notably on the dashboard and everywhere else that familiar blue touches. The light grays and muted blues had a contrast ratio of 2.02:1. What does that mean? Bad. It was bad, and we needed to do better by people with visual impairments.
Enter your new dashboard:
It looks…cleaner, doesn’t it? Like someone dusted off the poorly accessible bits. The blue is darker, the grays are lighter, all the buttons and icons are brighter with our new brand colors, and it has a contrast ratio of 7.87:1 What does that mean? Good! Very good.
The switch to your brand new, higher contrast, less dusty dashboard has been slowly rolling out this week. If you haven’t seen it yet, you’ll get it sometime in the next few days.
A note: We know that this color change on the dashboard negatively impacts the beautiful bluespace art so many of you have created over the past few years. Seeing these older posts lose the utilization of the dashboard—something that made them so special and unique to just Tumblr—is certainly not a great feeling. There’s no way around that. We hope, however, that this change only means newer, more bluespace art will be created, and that this time around it will be easier for everyone to experience.
Goodbye, #36465D. You’ve treated many of us well, but #001935 will treat every single one of us even better.
I really don’t expect staff to read this, but maybe all of you will. The previous color was also okay for web accessibility. Meanwhile, the new color is horrible for people with chronic migraines triggered by visual sensitivity, such as myself.
[ID: Screenshot of a color contrast checker with the previous color as the background, and white as the foreground. The contrast ratio is 9.58 to 1, and it passes.]
This was the previous color.
[ID: Screenshot of a color contrast checker with the new color as the background, and white as the foreground. It has a ratio of 17.64 to 1, and it also passes.]
This is the current color.
I’m not visually impaired, so I won’t comment on whether one is better than the other in that regard, but it is extremely triggering for my conditon.
If Tumblr wanted to make its website more accessible, it would add a better (and functioning) way to add captions to photos. It would make the background color and text size/font on it’s website easy to toggle. It would fix its inaccessible login page.
They’ve made a good step by fixing the tab order on the mobile site, but they have a long way to go, and this is not a step in the right direction.
the concern with high contrast and web accessibility is primarily… text. changing the background color of a webpage when there are already (white) containers for the posts does nothing to aide the accessibility of the posts themselves. there is no meaningful information imparted by heightening the contrast of the background (separating post barriers) that wouldn’t be equally—and much less distressingly—imparted by, i don’t know, the formatting? of the posts? like reblog buttons and user urls!
@support high contrast is pretty much useless without font size options. fix that, maybe.
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