Why It’s Not Bulletproof

Getting back to my helpful reader’s e-mail—you know, the one who wisely disables images when he browses on a slow dial-up connection—the reason for his note was to inform me that the content on my site was either hard to read or just plain not there at all. Oh my. I have to admit this was rather embarrassing, but let’s take a look at why this happened.

Because the content’s text color was two shades of gray, when the tiled image was removed (or disabled by the reader) the text was left sitting on the default background color, which was also a dark gray. The result was a semi-unreadable page; one could barely make out the text in the wider main column, and even worse, the text in the smaller right column was invisible. The text in this column shared the same color gray as the background, leaving the text completely hidden.