New UI - Accessibility feedback

[J3w3ls]

I'm not against the UI overhaul. I don't think the changes are bad, only small points such as:
- Search should default to mods if you searched that last
- User search is really really bad. The sorting by relevance should push forward authors with lots of unique downloads. Either add a filter by UDL or improve upon the relevance filter to include that!
- Don't push collections that hard. Or give us a setting to turn that off entirely. Most experienced users won't use them, thus have no need to see them taking a lot of space on the page.

One tiny comment: premium users also have a big space at the top, it's not linked to ad blockers

[ProbablySolus]

I genuinely don't think the team understands what people mean when they say the new UI gives people headaches.

I went to look at Fallout 4 mods and I immediately, like.. Two seconds in, started feeling a pain in the center/top of my head and it went away immediately when I clicked back and went back to the Nexus main menu, where there hasn't been changes yet.

Nexus team, if you're listening, I can't even access the website with your new UI because it is physically painful to look at.
Or more accurately looking causes physical pain. English is fun.

[Demorphic]

1 hour ago, euph said:

Copy-paste of what I've said already half a dozen times:

High-Res or High-Viz, whichever you want to call it, BLINDS ME!

I'm photosensitive and all the bright white on a black background makes it so that after about 5 minutes, max, I have my field of vision covered in ghost black letters. It's like looking at the sun and getting blots on your eyes.

Who was the moron (sorry, it has no other name) that thought this would suit everyone? Who forgot that there is more than one type of visual impairment out there?

Give us an option to apply the old colors (and don't tell me it's impossible, I know it's a lie). We shouldn't be having to resort to mess around with CSS in order to be able to surf the site.

We specifically covered this area of feedback in the article update, did you manage to have a look through it?

[Demorphic]

14 minutes ago, J3w3ls said:

I'm not against the UI overhaul. I don't think the changes are bad, only small points such as:
- Search should default to mods if you searched that last
- User search is really really bad. The sorting by relevance should push forward authors with lots of unique downloads. Either add a filter by UDL or improve upon the relevance filter to include that!
- Don't push collections that hard. Or give us a setting to turn that off entirely. Most experienced users won't use them, thus have no need to see them taking a lot of space on the page.

One tiny comment: premium users also have a big space at the top, it's not linked to ad blockers

We mentioned these points in the article:
We are looking to enable an option to change your default search category. For you, this might be mods.

If you know the username you are searching for, you should always find it. Surely it's better than no users search? Which is what we previously had.

We added quite a lot of feedback and context on the collections prominence and some of the options we are exploring.

[SonderBain]

Readability and comfort should be the priority and I feel the strict compliance with WCAG misses the mark for everyone who doesn't need it so much. 

Instead of relying on outside sources and guidelines ask the community members who actually need it maybe.

Edited March 31 by SonderBain
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[polymorphic2346]

I am dyslexic and have visually exacerbated neurologic issues. I have responded to feedback previously, however doing so in a forum environment is itself ironically taxing for me. I have a lot of difficulty following. If you would like to add me to your "specific users", please message me. I would be happy to volunteer my labor as I am among the people who have been with this place since the TES Nexus days in some form or another and currently it is more difficult for me to use than ever. And it is not only because WCAG2's contrast is geared more toward one visual impairment than another.

If your slate is full, all I have to say is that customizability is accessibility. There are so many ways for the human body to interact with the universe and that many effects are produced. Not all of them are pleasant, nor indeed 'accessible'. Allowing people to tailor the interface to their needs would be ideal. Whether this is through compatibility with a browser plugin or through your own sites settings..., just don't charge us like Discord is doing please. I'd rather it take an extra hour for me to browse mods than for profiteers to make my migraine-free days a commodity.

[zloybelka]

4 hours ago, adventurer66 said:

I have to lean way closer to my screen even to read these comments than I do on any other site I use

Same here Gotten tolerable after putting together some CSS (thanks to some other users), I linked it on my profile page (the one on nexus-next, not the forum one) if someone needs it ASAP. To make it work, I of course had to peer into my screen face first for many more hours. Very Accessible.

[zloybelka]

Also for accessibility's sake, can you make all buttons in the posting window appear on lower screen resolutions, because I only see about 2/5 of them at my usual 90% scale (the full bar appears at 67%)? Only noticed them in full in this thread, in the messenger and other forum threads due to narrower post columns they vanish into non-existence.

[spookyboiBDE]

First, I want to say that this criticism is coming from a place of good faith. I don't hate any and all change, and I actually like some aspects of the new search filters, so thank you all for that!

I can understand why you made the change to the contrast since it is apparently compliant with accessibility guidelines. Unfortunately, it seems these guidelines need to be updated, because the high contrast has turned into an accessibility issue for me. Since the contrast change, I can't use the site for more than a few minutes at a time. My eyes feel strained, have trouble focusing and feel like they get blind spots if I browse through Nexus for more than 10 minutes now. I've also experienced headaches after using the site. I never had any of these issues with the previous colors and contrast.

[7531Leonidas]

Here is a close facsimile of the colors I used to use in Win 7, using the color overrides in Firefox.  The background is much lighter than that which I used, and a lot of the site gets washed out because of the lack of available change options:

I just wish that the UI experts could give us more options, as in Vortex, to adjust our own UI colors, including the borders.  Windows 10 really started the process of reducing user options for the interface, and it seems that W11 has furthered the process.