i made my blog unreadable...
well, sort of. i didn't mean to. it's funny to me NOW (honestly, just funny all around) because i found the issue, one that i was blissfully unaware of.
so, i recently added a dark mode scheme to my blog. i was messing with the code throughout this month and accidentally set text-color to none for both light and dark mode. now, this works with light mode. in dark mode, black text on an earthy brown background is accessibility hell.
how did i not know this? when i post, i tend to do so during the daytime, or i publish at night before bed, and look at my blog when it's daytime again. i'm looking at my blog with light mode, always light mode, if you're following. in short, it's oversight. cartoonish, almost.
how did i find this out? i emailed a bearblog user this week about one of his posts. he got back to me and mentioned how he had to turn his brightness up to the max to be able to read my blog at all. i thought that was odd, and just so happened to be online in the evening. my laptop switches to dark mode around sunset, right? so, when i look at my blog's front page, i'm confused as to why i can only see hyperlinks lit up and not text. then it hit me...
needless to say, this has been fixed. i'm sorry to anyone who's read my blog under dark mode circumstances this month. truly a dunce-cap-materializing-on-my-head moment.
nevertheless! i was already in the process of auditing my blog's aesthetics and accessibility, in a twist of irony. the feedback just gave me the push to tinker. i changed up the color scheme of everything and had some fun with customizing the toast button, too (shout out to sylvia's post on this).