272297 - If background color is specified text color should be too to avoid invisible text

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[DStile]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In all Update pages, e.g. http://update.mozilla.org/about/ , there are lots of
places where the background color is specified but the text color is not.  If a
user sets non-default background and text colors on their browser (for example
under Firefox go to Options->General->Fonts & Colors and uncheck the "always use
my colors.") text can become unreadable due to color clash.  I set background
color to black and the text color to a light color to give my eyes a break on
those sites that do not specify background and text color.  If you specify a
background color, I believe that you should also set a text color to avoid this
issue.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firfox and go to Options->General->Fonts & Colors and uncheck "always
use my colors."  Set text color to white and background color to black.
2. Browse to http://update.mozilla.org
3. Compare this with other sites such as http://www.mozilla.org/


Actual Results:  
You can see headings and links, but since the page does not set a color for
regular text, text now appears to be invisible.

Expected Results:  
If we specify a background color we should specify a contrasting text color so
that we're friendly to Firefox and Mozilla users who do specify text and
background but do not set the browser to override websites' colors by checking
the "always use my colors" box in Options->General->Fonts & Colors.

Comment 1

[DStile]

Attachment: This shows how text can appear invisible

Comment 2

[DStile]

Correcting link I gave to https://update.mozilla.org/?application=mozilla

Sorry for bug-spam!

Comment 3

[alanjstr]

Please take a look at http://update-beta.mozilla.org to see if our redesign
still has this problem.

Comment 4

[DStile]

This wasn't fixed in beta until just recently, but apparently at some point body
got a color: #333 attribute.

Thanks a bunch, it is appreciated!