Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-14779707-20130828172140/@comment-188432-20130904165830

Dimension10 wrote: It looks fine to me; thanks! .

As for the link colour, do you really see yellow? I seem to be seeing orange.

But I'll see that contrast analyser. The point with contrast standards is that not everyone has the same vision as you. After tons of studies using people with all sorts of visual acuity from "super human" to "fully colour blind" certain contrast standards have been developed to ensure that the widest range of human eyes can easily read your content without eyestrain.

Your link colour is a sort of pale mustard — as you say, a light orange — that's #FEC356. That against white gives a truly miserably low contrast ratio of 1.59 : 1. That's only fractionally better than white on white or 1 : 1. I would think you need to at least get to 5 : 1, which is the very minimum standard. The better standard is at least 7 : 1.

That means that against a white background, you can't use anything from every shade of yellow to every shade of what most people consider orange. There are some really burnt variation of orange that most people would regard as brown that you could use. But even a relatively dark orange like #EA5F02 only rises to a little over 3:1 on a white background.

I see that you haven't changed these colours through CSS, so I'm guessing you got there through the Wikia Theme Designer. Unfortunately, the Theme Designer will allow you to do anything you want without giving legibility warnings of any kind. It really should, because most people go off of what they personally can see, without regard to the science of optics.