Are you a fan of the teeny-text literally unreadable black Web pages?
Internet Explorer can be used to disable the style sheet but it takes --SIX STEPS-- to move back and forth:
IE > Tools > Internet Options > Accessibility > [x] Ignore colors specified on webpages > Okay
However, I ask a simple common sense question, "Are people generally willing to perform six steps back and forth just to try to read an otherwise literally unreadable website and then perform all six steps to return to the standard operational mode?" Hello? Are there any rationale adults working here?
Other browsers also require many steps to disable style sheets but we’re still right back to where we started: visual impairment imposed by some artsy-fartsy almost always twenty-something morons who think of themselves as designers.
People of all age groups should know we've been through this ridiculous phase of “designeritis” before; all the way back in the 1980s the so-called "designers" attempted to turn the entire User Interface of Computer Aided Design (CAD) software products unreadable because they thought it was "cool" with fallacious rationale --which proved false then and is false now-- because their claims that teeny-text no-contrast black allegedly improves the ability to use the computer for long periods of time which is not true. At all. Medical science disproves this kind of ca-ca de toro [1].
For example, I’m saying say so myself because I’ve been around since the proverbial Day One but I ask you to ask any architect or engineer over the age of 40 who has sat for many long hours using CAD software to design and draw. Not one of us could cope with it and not one CAD vendor thought it was a good idea to impose visual impairment to make their software products unusable by large numbers of people simply because some snotty-nosed designer thought it was a neat-o concept back in the day. So what happened along the way? Prozac? What?
Well, here's some twenty-something logic for you to ask these young turks. "if the User Interface cannot literally be read at all by a significant number of persons is there going to be --any time at all-- spent trying to use the webpage or the product?" By whom?
This currently cruel, inhumane and demonstrably unprofitable trend is not about aesthetics it is about foolish design for the sake of design violating all principles of design along the way imposed by twenty-somethings who have nothing to contribute anymore literally allowed to impose visual impairment into a company’s product line and into a company’s Web site properties to be trendy.
This is actually now being done by Adobe and by the copy-cats at Microsoft who have Web design and development products that are completely unusable by a large number of persons in the market, i.e. generally people over the age of 30-40 years old which medical science has proven are vulnerable [1]. What kind of common sense doesn’t understand the simple notion of imposed visual impairment? We've all seen this on the web innumerable times in Web pages; teeny-text unreadable web pages.
So I ask once again, “What kind of stoopit?”
[1] search: visual impairment research etc.