Experimental: Lots of text is not readable due to too low contrast between foreground and background

[fladd]

• Left pane: Rooms with new messages are not distinguishable from rooms with no new messages
• Middle pane:
  • Top: Room description is not readable
  • Center: Dates, timestamps, join/leave messages are not readable
  • Bottom: Encryption status, message in the entry field are not readable
• Right pane:
  • Member list: Online/offline state, message in filter box are not readable
  • File list: Timestamps, filesize are not readable
  • Notifications: Dates are not readable

[fladd]

This is about the redesign (on experimental branch). I was brought here from within the experimental branch to give feedback about the redesign, but it appears that the issue is not tagged correctly (and I also cannot tag it myself apparently).

[jryans]

@fladd, could you include a screenshot as well? Some users have been seeing different fonts than expected, so it's good to have visual confirmation of what you are seeing on your side.

[ghost]

What theme? Can't reproduce this on any of them, I can read all the text.

[jryans]

What theme? Can't reproduce this on any of them, I can read all the text.

Since this is a redesign issue, I am assuming the reporter is talking about the theme on riot.im/experimental. (There is only one theme currently available there.)

[lampholder]

WCAG contrast checker (set to AA) flags issues with:

• hyperlinks
• timestamps
• room topic text
• some of the display name colours
• the 'Invite to this room' white on green button in the member list panel

Everything else is fine (explicitly: timeline text, member list, room list, avatars, room title).

It looks to me like the ff WCAG plugin doesn't check for visibility of placeholder text, 'cause the placeholder in the room- and memberlist-filters looks very low contrast to me.

[fladd]

Yes, I am talking about the experimental theme. And yes, I can also read the text, if I am squinting closely at my screen. But why would you want users to do this? Shouldn't they be able to use the app comfortably? Especially if it can easily be fixed so easily by just increasing the contrast (and in case of room names with unread messages in the room list by giving it a different colour than the rooms with no unread messages)?

[AndrewJDR]

Particularly the "Online/offline state" not being visible in the member list anymore is an annoyance. It's a pretty common thing to glance over at that status to know whether it's worth contacting someone at the moment.

[nadonomy]

Closing this as >2 years old, themes have changed dramatically since. :)

If needed, please open new issue(s) with screenshots.