Opened 2 years ago

Last modified 13 months ago

#34038 closed Bug

Low text contrast and no visual cues for links within body text in admin UI — at Initial Version

Reported by: Thibaud Colas Owned by: nobody
Component: contrib.admin Version: 4.0
Severity: Normal Keywords: accessibility, color contrast, ux
Cc: William Claassen Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: no Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: yes UI/UX: yes
Pull Requests:17419 unmerged, 17825 unmerged, 16101 unmerged, 16378 merged

Description

The Django admin’s light theme uses a light blue for links within text, with no other distinction of what is a link. This is problematic for two reasons:

  • The current shade of blue, #447e9b, doesn’t have enough contrast against the white body background.
  • For people with color blindness, there is no visual cue that a link is a link.

For those reasons, I would recommend:

  • Changing the link color of --link-fg. My recommendation would be to use an ever-so-slightly darker #437c98 (1% less lightness in HSL representation)
  • Introduce an underline for all links within body text, so they can be identified unambiguously.

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