1016263 - Desktop Theme Text Color used in some places inside website

Status: NEW

(www.mozilla.org :: General, defect, P4)

Description

[Benedikt V]

Attachment: Example. Very top and lower third

For some elements in Websites, firefox uses the desktop theme main text color. That is horrible if you have a dark theme, and so on a light color for text, because most websites are light.
For example the color of the "YOUR EMAIL HERE"  or the "Ja, bitte    Nein, Danke" on top (appear if you are from germany) on https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ or the text in searchbar of "next.duckduckgo.com".
I think that are mostly interactive elements like input fields and buttons.

Comment 1

[Benedikt V]

Why did you change to Theme.
As far as I know, Theme means theme managed by theme manager inside firefox.
But this problem occurs because of the desktop/shell theme. So in my eyes its a Shell Integration Bug.

Comment 2

[:Gijs (he/him)]

This is a bug in the website. They're specifying a background color but not a foreground color, which means the OS default foreground color is used, which is a well-known website accessibility issue (specified under WCAG) that is explained in e.g. http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/F24.html . I'm moving this bug to our websites components so we can fix the cases you've called out on www.mozilla.org. The next.duckduckgo.com issue will have to be solved by duckduckgo. Perhaps you can contact them about it?

I'm fairly sure we don't intend to change our usage of the relevant CSS constants.

Comment 3

[Benedikt V]

But maybe the could be an option in the color menu, that overwrites the OS foreground color for websites.

Comment 4

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

Hi,

Can you please specify which theme to apply to reproduce this? I've tried a few dozen dark theme's and all seem ok. 

I've also tried changing the main Firefox text color in Preferences -> Content -> Colors and the URL (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/) does not seem effected as per your screenshot.

Thanks

Comment 5

[Benedikt V]

It still affects me.
Here My system Data:
Dist: Arch Linux x64
DE: KDE4
Colorsheme: Ghost or Krita-dark or everyone with light normal text
GTK2-Theme('cause this actually affects firefox):oxygen-gtk
The GTK2-Theme just brings the KDE Theme to GTK2 applications

Comment 6

[Alex Gibson [:agibson]]

Thanks for the updated info :Benedikt V - Looks like this behavior is specific to Linux, which I can't test directly. Will see if we can find someone to take a look.