[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:  task (blessed)                       |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  5.3
Component:  Administration                       |     Version:
 Severity:  minor                                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-screenshots wpcampus-report      |     Focuses:  ui,
  color-contrast form-controls has-patch         |  accessibility
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Comment (by johnjamesjacoby):

 I understand all of the reasons why the work being done here is good. I
 also appreciate greatly the attention to detail that is going into all of
 this.

 But... I don't think the end result is more visually appealing than it was
 before.

 It's rigid, monochromatic, and inconsistently so. Form fields, meta-boxes,
 and list tables have strong borders, but the primary and secondary
 navigation have no lines or borders at all. Inner and outer shadows have
 been removed from some places and not others.

 Visually, selects and secondary buttons now look nearly identical. There
 isn't enough color contrast between their background colors when side-by-
 side to naturally identify them as unique elements anymore.

 The transition that's applied on `:focus` is distracting, and makes the UI
 feel sluggish when trying to quickly navigate between multiple form
 fields. The speed & snappiness is gone.

 It mostly seems like all of the global problems Gutenberg has got moved
 into the rest of WordPress Admin.

 So much is being done here, which is great to see, but this is practically
 a complete styling overhaul, while also feeling incomplete at the same
 time.

 Maybe this should have been a blog post instead... but I also want to
 raise concerns here, so that they're out in the open asynchronously. I'm
 sure I'm wrong, but just in case, here it is.

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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/47153#comment:50>
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