1458151 - Blue hyperlinks in gray footer are difficult to read

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Participation Infrastructure :: Phonebook, enhancement)

Description

[:Atoll]

The footer color scheme replaces the page's original background color of (255,255,255) with a darker (87,88,92), but retains the original hyperlink color.

Unfortunately, the original hyperlink color is very difficult for me to read when overlaid on the darker background color. I checked with the WebAIM WAVE evaluation extension and it reports that the link color used here violates the minimum contrast accessibility guidelines — both on the white background *and* on the dark background.

Please improve the contrast and readability of the hyperlinks in the footer by setting their color to a higher contrast choice when in the footer, and consider whether to alter the color selected for the white background areas as well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/wave-accessibility-tool/

The specific warning from the addon is:

Very low contrast between foreground and background colors.

Text is present that has a contrast ratio less than 4.5:1, or large text (larger than 18 point or 14 point bold) has a contrast ratio less than 3:1

https://webaim.org/standards/wcag/checklist#sc1.4.3

Comment 1

[:Atoll]

Contrast repairs should also be considered for the yellow informative message bar at the top of the page, especially given the urgency of that bar when it's in use.

Comment 2

[Henrik Mitsch [:hmitsch]]

Thank you for this feedback. We are in the process of redesigning Mozillians.org and are therefore holding off from non-critical fixes. 

Regardless of this we are thankful for your feedback.

Best regards,
   Henrik