oh good fucking grief

[ysobel]

So the fucking disaster that is Ravelry's makeover

that is literally giving people migraines and seizures

and not usable by screen readers

has not been rolled back, or de-animated, or in any way made accessible

and there's been no explanation

the front page still has just a chirpy twee "explanation" of the redesign with stuff like "We tried a bunch of different approaches but ended up with a simple misshapen circle with the r in it. Like the primary logo, we kept the secondary mark simple so that it could be flexibly used. We affectionately call her "Lumpy" :)" and "We already had our cinnamon color for the logo, and now we needed some color friends." (the logo is coral not cinnamon) and "we didn't want the colors to follow current web trends in color schemes" (coral/teal is not unique) and "I can't stress enough how much hard work, thought, and love went into the new look."

there have been daily feedback threads that pay lip service to "We also will not permit accessibility issues to be dismissed." but also say "We understand that those of you giving feedback in this thread would like us to make the Classic Ravelry site the default site. We feel that keeping Ravelry’s New Look as our default, with an option to opt-in to the Classic Ravelry look as we improve the new site, is the best option." and there are no answers or explanations for anything, so it has the feeling of shouting into a void

this is not the first time rav has had accessibility issues, but holy fuck this is just a dumpster fire

I am so very out of cope

Comments

[vass]

Ooof. I am so sorry.