Adjust background alternate row on post and page tables

[karmatosed]

Now that the lighter background has been added, the background on hover for the post and pages table could be adjusted also. Whilst the lightest color grey is #f0f0f0 in Storybook, dataViews have the table hover at #f8f8f8. I would recommend we use that and attach that as option.

What this does is reduce number of grays which are getting out of control a bit again.

This changes the background color to be consistent with the one used on hover in dataViews.
What this does is reduce number of grays which are getting out of control a bit again.

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/62866.

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[karmatosed]

I am uploading the existing stripe alt to show how small the change is but how beneficial it is in reducing yet more differences.

Thanks for the PR. Looks good to me 👍

Maybe we can also use #f8f8f8 on the following selectors, in dashboard.css:

• #activity-widget #the-comment-list .comment-item
• #future-posts li:nth-child(odd), #published-posts li:nth-child(odd)
• .community-events ul

That would cover the following elements:

[poena]

What are the current and new color contrast ratios between the background color and the different text color?s Since the text color did not change.

[audrasjb]

@poena it's better than before since the odd rows background color is a bit lighter than before: now we have 6.89:1 for normal text and 4.86:1 for blue links.

[poena]

Thank you @audrasjb

@audrasjb I like idea of that, let me see about working on those.

[joedolson]

I think we need to work on adapting the core color palette (​https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/23/standardization-of-wp-admin-colors-in-wordpress-5-7/) so that we shift to the new palette consistently.

E.g., if dataviews are using #f8f8f8, the closest in core colors is #f6f7f7, and we should make those agree.

[paupaupau555]

Totally agree, we ought to have a systematic approach with the least amount effort in order to update in a clean way, having color #f6f7f7 still works as the contrast ratio still reaches the AA rank (not the AAA one but I think that's ok).

Replying to joedolson:

I think we need to work on adapting the core color palette (​https://make.wordpress.org/core/2021/02/23/standardization-of-wp-admin-colors-in-wordpress-5-7/) so that we shift to the new palette consistently.

E.g., if dataviews are using #f8f8f8, the closest in core colors is #f6f7f7, and we should make those agree.

[karmatosed]

Due to the time and views expressed, I am going to for now move this out of this cycle. We can take out time and should with this.

[audrasjb]

Moving to 6.9.

[jorbin]

The current patch uses #f8f8f8, but it seems like there is consensus around #f6f7f7 instead, so this should get updated and retested.

[joedolson]

This ticket is only relevant if #62831 moves forward, so I'm going to remove it from the milestone for now. If that progresses, this can be moved back in.