Accessibility issues with the color contrast in the current palette
spcanelon opened this issue · comments
Hello! I'm one of the speakers this year and I've learned from someone planning on attending my talk that the colors being used for the website makes the content inaccessible to them.
They have Irlen syndrome and in their case, they cannot read when the text or background are any remotely "warm" color, with yellow being the worst. This link leads to the conversation on Twitter.
For another reference, according to the U.S. Government accessibility guidelines for color and contrast, one guideline reads:
Slightly temper the contrast between your text and background color. For example: don’t use pure black text on a pure white background. Stark contrast can result in blurred or moving text for people with Irlen syndrome.
This said, would it be possible to come into alignment with these guidelines by providing an experience with, for example, an off-white background? Issue #2791 filed in the U.S. Web Design System repo provides some additional context and a great list of resources.
sorry that we've missed this @spcanelon! @serahrono do you have ideas for fixing this? I was thinking maybe having another schedule display page that is grey text on off-white background, but before I start messing around here I wanted to check with you first :-)
and thanks for opening the issue @spcanelon!
Thanks @lwinfree! If the team can manage an alternative color scheme for any website visitors that would be awesome. And I understand that an off-white background is best, if possible. I appreciate you considering this!
hi @lwinfree and @spcanelon, I added a gray theme, and a toggle to move between the two at the top right of the website. Let me know what you think.
🤩 Thanks so much @serahrono! I'll check with the person that pointed out the issue to me and let you know ASAP.
@serahrono this change was appreciated!
Awesome, thanks so much!
Thank you and @lwinfree so much for your responsiveness and willingness to implement some additional accessibility practices for the website in time for this conference. I'm really looking forward to participating 😃
amazing, thank you so much for bringing this to our attention @spcanelon 🙌