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Investigate higher contrast color for buttons & links #5

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etrepum opened this issue May 11, 2020 · 1 comment
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Investigate higher contrast color for buttons & links #5

etrepum opened this issue May 11, 2020 · 1 comment

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etrepum commented May 11, 2020

On some of the site we use orange (#FF962C) text on a white background (2.17 contrast ratio), or white text on an orange background (2.17 contrast ratio).

The Web Content Accessibility Guide suggests a minimum contrast ratio of at least 4.5 for normal text or 3 for large text. The enhanced contrast success criterion suggest 7 for normal text and 4.5 for large type.

The colors in our current palette that meet the minimum contrast ratio with white are:

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etrepum commented May 23, 2020

In more recent wireframes it looks like we're mostly using violet as the primary link color so we should switch the theme around accordingly.

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