Dark UI themes are new and cool — but are they accessible?

They are new and cool, and it is claimed they will help save the environment but are they accessible? The answer is: “sometimes”.

Sheri Byrne-Haber, CPACC
UX Collective
Published in
4 min readSep 16, 2019

--

Side-by-side HTML page mock ups, one with a black background the other with a white background

Dark mode is one of those new, hot design features that is generating a lot of “buzz”. Apple and Slack, for example, have been pushing dark themed…

--

--

LinkedIn Top Voice for Social Impact 2022. UX Collective Author of the Year 2020. Disability Inclusion SME. Sr Staff Accessibility Architect @ VMware.