Color contrast: audit all the oranges (colors!)

[afercia]

See related #31713.

Orange is a difficult color and ​is hard to contrast to a sufficient level. Additionally, sometimes it's used on light gray backgrounds, e.g. the zebra-striped table rows.

Wondering if the best choice would be to simply use a different color.

See screenshot below with some examples:

[afercia]

More oranges-ish (almost reds) that need to be updated:

[afercia]

Needs a design decision about the color/s to use as a replacement for the oranges.

[afercia]

No decision about the new colors to use yet and tomorrow is beta 4 day so, punting.

[afercia]

In 37611:

Accessibility: improve the color contrast in the Edit Comment "Status" box.

The current orange and red used for the radio button labels in the Edit Comment
"Status" box don't have a sufficient color contrast ratio with the background.
Removing the colors improves accessibility and consistency.

See #35659, #35622.
Fixes #36967.

[kekkakokkers]

Unapprove link

[kekkakokkers]

Approve link

[kekkakokkers]

Im going to adress #d98500 used for unapprove link comments

Please see attachments: unapprove.png and approve.png

My suggestion is to remove the accent colors orange and green, and use two standard link colors: blue for Reply, Quick Edit and Edit , and red for Unapprove, Spam and Trash.

• There is a mix of actions and status changes, and hitting Reply on an unapproved comment will actually Reply and approve
• Both the orange and green is only used in this specific screen, and by removing these there will be less color combinations to validate for contrast
• Action links will be consistent with correspondent links for post and pages

[bvreeman22]

I've looked through the site, and the color issues identified on this ticket do not seem to be in use anymore. The closest that I found are the colors #b32d2e and #996800, which are approved WordPress Colors found on ​https://codepen.io/ryelle/full/WNGVEjw

[joedolson]

No definite new contrast issues have been flagged against this for several years now. While there may still be outstanding issues to identify, it's time to close this ticket out. Any new color contrast issues should be raised as independent new tickets, rather than keeping this open-ended ticket active forever.