Waterloo Region DUG February Meetup: Welcome to the Dark Side

Wednesday, February 18 - 7-9pm
University of Waterloo, E7 1131

Presenter: Megan McDermott, Woolwich Web Works

Offering dark mode on a website is becoming increasingly popular. It’s a good option for accessibility, and a lot of people just prefer to view web pages this way.

You might think this should be simple - just swap the text and background colours and you’re good to go, right? It turns out that there’s a bit more to it.

In this session we will look at:

• When and why you should provide a dark mode
• Designing dark and light colour schemes that work
• How to allow users to choose dark mode and respect system preferences
• How to handle both colour schemes in in CSS (including some super cool new CSS tricks!)
• How to make system UI elements (i.e. forms) respect the dark mode selection

You'll come away with a strategy for implementing dark mode, and the tools & code to make it happen.

Online option

Online meeting link will be posted on the Groups page on the day.