Twitter tones down new buttons after complaints of eye pressure | Engadget

A couple of days in the past, Twitter rolled out a variety of design updates meant to make the web site extra accessible. It launched a brand new proprietary typeface and elevated distinction to make buttons and different visible parts like pictures stand out. Just as a result of these modifications make the web site extra accessible for some individuals, although, does not imply they work for everybody. As TechCrunch and CNET observe, complaints began pouring in after the replace went out, with individuals reporting eye pressure and complications brought on by the modifications. Now, the social community has introduced that it is adjusting its buttons’ distinction ranges to make them simpler on the eyes. 

Twitter mentioned it made the adjustment after individuals despatched in complaints that the “new look is uncomfortable for people with sensory sensitivities.” The firm’s accessibility account began asking for suggestions a day after the updates went out, promising to trace all of it. Sounds prefer it’s stayed true to its phrase, although the Chirp font stays even when it is supposedly giving people headaches. Twitter additionally hasn’t modified the brand new colours for the Follow button, which has precipitated fairly the confusion: The button is now stuffed in with black for accounts you have but to comply with and reveals up with a white background for accounts you are already following. It was the opposite manner round.

The firm might launch extra fixes to its accessibility replace sooner or later, although. It informed TechCrunch that “feedback was sought from people with disabilities throughout the process, from the beginning.” However, it is aware of that “people have different preferences and needs and [it] will continue to track feedback and refine the experience.” Twitter added: “We realize we could get more feedback in the future and we’ll work to do that.”