WRDUG March Metup: Welcome to the Dark side ** Rescheduled **

​Rescheduled New date: Thursday, March 5 - 7-9pm

​University of Waterloo, E7 rm 1331

​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.

This is not a particularly Drupal-specific talk. We will look at a module used to handle the switch, but otherwise it's mostly design and CSS.

Presenter: Megan McDermott, Woolwich Web Works