I don’t mean to sound entitled, and I hope that the author of Arctic is in good health. But, with the TestFlight soon expiring and the AppStore version somewhat outdated, I was hoping if there would be anyone who had any news about updates? Or, should we be looking for alternatives?
Yeah, I know what you mean.
Unfortunately many areas of accessibility don’t have such a one-size-fits-all solution. Low, medium and high contrast themes in both light and dark mode would be a good starting point and allow at least minimum use for most people, but it would still exclude many people. If you’re adding more themes than just light and dark mode, is it that much more time consuming to add customisable themes? The iOS Mastodon app Ice Cubes is open source and has similar theme customisation to Arctic, I’m not sure if it could be of any help.
‘Problem/solution’ is appropriate wording for technology, no one will interpret it ableistly! Inaccessibility is a huge problem. I’m not sure anyone feels fine just the way they are when they’re excluded from the majority of the internet and society at large though, haha.
It’s not a lot of work to add multiple themes. It’s more that everything I add need to test and maintain as I ship updates. I would love to grow the project and have more testers. Having people report accessibility bugs is super helpful.
I could use some help writing out what themes to add. Would you be willing to open a GitHub issue with all the themes listed? Feel free to provide comparables like “High contrast - See Arctic this theme”
Edit: or maybe I should just implement all of Arctic’s themes if you think they are great as is