Can anybody read this?
5Granted, I’m old & my vision (in the literal sense) ain’t perfect & I’m reading this on a cheap Kindle Fire, not the most fabulous piece of technology, but it bothers me that I CANNOT READ THE MEH PAGE TODAY. Who on earth thought it would be fun to display crucial information (stuff like, ya know, the price!!) In light blue type on an ugly orangish blob of ink? I’m not kidding; I can’t read it. I don’t mind playing around with graphics & stuff, but this has really driven me nutzo. The item Meh is trying to sell today for some price or another seems to be some kind of cordless vacuum. Anybody else having problems?
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I can read it just fine
It reads clearly to me.
I hear ya! I often have trouble reading the text when it’s on certain colors. Just last week I sent an email to another company complaining about this same thing!
And today, here on Meh where they’ve got the white text on orange background for the different topics, I couldn’t read anything but the title! Maybe it’s just our old eyes, IDK but it is issue and you’re not alone! 
It was a PITA though. Jus sayen… 
On a second look when I tilted my phone I was able to make out the text in the screenshot below.
@Lynnerizer Yes, barely. I would absolutely grouse about it.
If you haven’t done so lately, now may be a good time to have your eyes checked. Things like cataracts can affect your vision in that way. Thankfully that’s an easily correctable problem with surgery that is a game changer for a lot of people.
@chienfou Cataract surgery can be a disaster for people who do a lot of close-work craft or hobby tasks that require depth feedback for accurate positioning of fingers and tools. My older brother discovered that while he could once again read the markings on SMD components after the surgery, he could not accurately place them on the board anymore; he literally could not tell how close to the target he was. I’ve decided to delay mine as long as feasible for the same reason.
@chienfou @werehatrack That’s because of the contact lens they put in; if I have it done I’m going to insist they use one that either doesn’t correct at all, or corrects my close-up vision.
@werehatrack
There are reasons that there is a process called “informed consent”.
Whether it’s the preparation, the procedure, or the recovery there are risks/benefits that must be assessed. Each patient must weigh those and decide for themselves if the balance falls on the “go for it” side of that equation. There are NO guarantees.
Depth perception issues are typically seen between the surgery for the first eye and the second one. The vast majority of folks learn to adjust after surgery once their brain gets used to the changes in data input.
@chienfou @Kyeh Lenses with multifocal capability exist, and two friends as well as my brother all have them - and they all report the same issue with regard to things like trying to thread a needle or reinstall the screws in a laptop motherboard. The ability to guide the object accurately is partially reliant on the muscle tension feedback from the part of the eye which previously would have shaped the lens to sharpen focus for distance. The implanted lenses do not compress like a natural lens, so the feedback can now lie to the visual cortex about the relative distances of two apparently-aligned items, with the result that a target once easily achieved now requires extra steps and/or lacks critical precision. Yes, the improvement in vision overall is worth the disadvantages for the vast majority of people, but there are things that the providers will not tell you about as well, and their release paperwork is intentionally built to relieve them of the responsibility to be as thorough in this regard as one might expect. (This last gripe goes for a hell of a lot of things, actually. I’m dealing with a rather large pile of them myself at the moment. You really do not want to know.)
I’ve never used a kindle but can you click on text like you were going to copy it? If so, you could try that and select “highlight all” (or slide your finger to highlight the words) to make the words more legible? I do that on my browser when I run across hard to read pages. Worth a try!
@MrGoodGuy CTRL-A can be your friend on a PC.
@werehatrack Cool! Way faster than how I was doing it. Thanks!
The colors are obnoxious, but I can read it fine.
The battle I’m losing is teeny tiny fonts, and shades of (dark) gray on black, like the laser etched text on a lot of chargers and power supplies.
@blaineg For those I view the really obnoxious ones with my phone camera.
@blaineg @yakkoTDI We have a Kalorik air fryer (from Meh) whose temp and timer knobs have such low-contrast indicator markings that I’ve had to draw lines on them with a Sharpie. The time and temp scales surrounding those knobs are hard to read as well. I surmised that these shortcomings had probably contributed to their ending up on Meh.
The contrast is just barely enough for me to make out, and I have to squint. I agree, this was a really poor choice of colors to combine if readability was any kind of consideration. (I’ve groused about this issue several times in the past, once over at SideDeal when a change put just-barely-tinted-red typography on a white background. With that one, it was hard to even tell that there was something present to read, let alone figure out what it said. I left a CS note tagged with the “I am filled with mindless rage (or whatever it was)” menu selection.)
Harrumph! The support ticket entry system used to provide a category for “I have blind rage and am seeing red”, and it has been excised. This is an outrage! An outrage, I say!
@werehatrack That is an outrage!!