Accessibility of the section dividers: improve visibility
The vertical dividers between the side menu and Library, as well as between Library and the third section, are de facto invisible for me. Without seeing them, I need to (slowly) wiggle the mouse between the sections, to find a point where I can grab the divider for dragging it.
-- Improve the visibility A LOT!
I would wish to have the movable dividers in a similar brightness & contrast as the text in the Library section.
In case that you want to avoid a simple white, you can mix a little bit of orange in it (but definitely no blue please!).
-- In this context, let me explain once more, why blue is in general a bad choice:
Many people today wear blue light filter glasses on the PC, to avoid that unhealthy light that causes the eyes macular degeneration.
Because such glasses filter out blue, this colour becomes useless for any kind of "highlighting" things.
Please, make the dividers white, maybe with a little orange in it if you want to have colour in it, but avoid blue.
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Thank you so much for reporting this — and for the detailed explanation about blue light filters. That's genuinely helpful context, and you're right that accessibility shouldn't depend on wiggling to find a hit target.
A couple of quick questions to help us look into this properly:
Answer to your questions:
I'm on Windows 10.
And I use in AnyTwo (as you see in the video) the dark theme plus the Dark Mode with the option "dimmed".
But I tried also the other Themes and Modes; none of them improves things for me. For me is the mentioned combination the only one that I can use; the light mode would burn my eyes to ash.
I explained all that already more then once to @Kaye .
-- I have a little weakness for blue light. It's not so dramatic, because I have no problems elsewhere; not in web browsers (Firefox, Brave), not in Office or CAD apps, nor in any App I know, but only in Anytype and especially in AnyTwo!
Since I'm a tester, I have already reported multiple issues about the bad visibility. And some of them has already become implemented -- version 0.1.6 has become better in many aspects.
What's still barely visible for me is the text cursor and the text selection!
Both are blue (where I'm a little weak) and both have WAY too low contrast and brightness.
Apart from my personal weakness with blue: someone who waers blue light filter glasses for the work on PC, would have the same problem.
Blue is in general a bad choice.
For dark mode would white with a touch of yellow (or orange) be a good choice.
The first version of AnyTwo that I've testet (on 23. September) was really total horrible! So many things have been de facto INVISIBLE! To test it was a pain!
I even wrote three reports about "missing" features, that I've simply overlooked because I couldn't see certain things!
Meanwhile, with every new version since then, became some aspects improved, because I wrote one report after the other and piece for piece they became implemented.
-- Not all till yet, but the overall situation has become incrementally better.
The biggest thing on my still open wish list is a fix for the issue with the quasi invisible text cursor & text selection.
If you want, click on my profile and do a browser search in my posts for "Visibil...".
My post have typically good explanations. If you read them, you should have a good overview about the things that need improvements to become better visible.
Btw.: In the old Anytype I was able to tweak a lot things on my own with CSS (but unfortunately not everything).
-- This is one big open thing on my wish list: to be able doing the same in AnyTwo!
Also btw.:
In the old Anytype, I was since three years complaining again and again and again about the de facto invisible connection lines in the Graph!
But Razor did never change that and it was unfortunately impossible to do it by myself with CSS, because these lines was out of reach for CSS.
What I really wich for AnyTwo is that it becomes possible to manipulate EVERY existing colour & brightness by the user!
Not a single value should be hardcoded! That's such a bad programming style!
Every existing value should always come from a file that a moderately advanced user could tweak on his own, at least in a simple text editor (similar to CSS).
This would give users with eye sight problems a quick way to do "something" and it opens the option to make things later tweakeable direct in the GUI instead of in a text editor.
As said: I have explained all that already so often over the last three years!
Kaye can sing that song from me ...
-- But I thank you a lot that you ask! This -- as well as what has happen in the last 10 days -- gives me the feeling that finally someone cares! 👍