Color contrast does not meet minimum requirement (IU Accessibility Mandate)

[mdalmau]

313,002 occurrences but this should be one or two small changes in the CSS. One problem is:

• green font used in the diplomatic and normalized versions to show legibility, deletions, etc.
• the footer links are red and do not provide sufficient contrast with the taupe background color
• there are more ... this will have to be fixed and rescanned in SiteImprove to reduce the occurrences to more easily pin point where the fixes need to be made

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• Ask Bill who should be added to the SiteImprove tool

[mdalmau]

@tubesoft : At the Newton meeting today, Bill said you would be working on these accessibility issues. I requested SiteImprove access for you. Once you have access, you will login using your @iu credentials. If you want to read more about SIteImprove and accessibility, LOGIN to the KB and start here.

Could you have a look at this issue and confirm it's something you can fix? Once you confirm, we can figure out a testing workflow.

[tubesoft]

I am changing the text color of #018B84 to #007F79, which improves the contrast from 3.86:1 to 4.503711010093676.
The color is just becoming a little bit darker. But it's subtle!

Before:

After:

[mdalmau]

@tubesoft : are you verifying the changes with the SiteImprove browser plugin? I am just curious if you are verifying local fixes with the plugin. Thanks!

[tubesoft]

Another issue is the background of the footer.
I am changing it from #BCAB81 to #DFD9BD, which is the same color as the header's background.
This improves the contrast from 3.94 to 6.284904266298057.

After:

[tubesoft]

@mdalmau I actually googled a color contrast checker on the web!

[tubesoft]

@mdalmau SiteImprove also lists "Enhanced" color contrast requirement. Do I have to work on that too? Or is it optional?

[mdalmau]

@tubesoft I am not sure what you mean. Can you include a screen shot for "enhanced" color contrast? Thanks!

[tubesoft]

@mdalmau This is it:

[mdalmau]

@tubesoft : No -- We only need to fix A and AA issues.

[tubesoft]

@mdalmau Good to know that! Thanks.

[tubesoft]

@mdalmau, I fixed the issues and committed, as you can see above.

[mdalmau]

Since this issue is now part of #146, I will mark this issue as "done" so I can better see the remaining accessibility issues!