[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47153: Field boundaries have insufficient color contrast

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#47153: Field boundaries have insufficient color contrast
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 Reporter:  anevins                              |       Owner:  audrasjb
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  5.3
Component:  Administration                       |     Version:
 Severity:  minor                                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-post-mortem has-screenshots    |     Focuses:  ui,
  wpcampus-report color-contrast form-controls   |  accessibility
  has-patch 5-3-admin-css-changes                |
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Comment (by azaozz):

 Replying to [comment:72 afercia]:
 > Basically: any UI controls must have a contrast ratio of at least 3:1
 against adjacent color(s).
 >
 > I'd like to remind everyone that the WCAG recommendations are not
 personal opinions....

 This is an unfortunate news to me, personally. So basically WCAG 2.1 can
 make recommendations that are inappropriate, and possibly harmful, for
 some groups of users in certain cases...

 Reading longer text that is tightly wrapped in dark border is harder for
 most users, and can be quite hard for people with diminished vision :(

 This doesn't seem to apply to buttons or other elements that have short
 text. In these cases the text is read once or twice, then the user
 "learns' to recognize the button/element and does not need to re-read it
 every time. However longer, "changeable" text needs to be read every time.

 Can this recommendation be implemented in a way that takes the needs of
 all users into account?

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47153#comment:74>
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