Updates: Interface and accessibility

September 13, 2021 — GNU social development team

Hello everyone! Throughout the past year there has been a lot of work in creating a polished, modern looking UI. This update has been in the works for a long time... Many considerations had to be done, and given the current state of modern browsers (and their over-reliance in JS) many more surfaced, leading to further testing and fixes.

We hope you like it!

The prime directive

Modern looking, consistent and accessible UI across all browsers. Non-JS version as the primary focus, JS is optional and should be regarded as such.

The Web is 95% typography, the art and technique of arranging type to make text more readable and pleasing. To achieve this, a textual hierarchy is fundamental, text should present a clear, readable structure to the reader. In much of the same fashion, the way we perceive Web pages relies upon the same fundamentals. As such, by focusing on the markup, we hope to achieve an accessible, fast and polished structure by which any browser and screen reader relies upon.

Features

Video

Keyboard tests



Images

Default dark theme

Settings are re-organized, allowing to focus into view each "tab" using the details HTML element.

Default light theme

Bonus :')