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Opened 19 months ago

Closed 17 months ago

Last modified 9 months ago

#63236 closed defect (bug) (duplicate)

Insufficient color contrast between background and foreground in site icon description

Reported by: dilipbheda Owned by:
Priority: normal Milestone:
Component: General Version:
Severity: normal Keywords: has-patch has-screenshots
Cc: Focuses: accessibility, administration

Description

While auditing the wp-admin/options-general.php page using the Chrome Lighthouse extension, I noticed that the Site Icon description fails the color contrast accessibility check.

Error:

Background and foreground colors do not have a sufficient contrast ratio.

This could impact users with visual impairments and does not meet WCAG accessibility standards. A higher contrast ratio between the text and background is recommended.

Suggestion:
Update the text or background color to ensure it meets the minimum contrast ratio required for accessibility (WCAG AA or AAA compliance).

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Change History (5)

This ticket was mentioned in ​PR #8653 on ​WordPress/wordpress-develop by ​@dilipbheda.


19 months ago
#1

#2 @sabernhardt
17 months ago

  • Milestone Awaiting Review
  • Resolution → duplicate
  • Status new → closed

This ticket is older, but I'll close it as a duplicate because #63449 has a little more information.

​@SergeyBiryukov commented on ​PR #8653:


9 months ago
#3

Thanks for the PR! Closing for now, as the associated Trac ticket has been closed.

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