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by TobbenTM 2423 days ago
Google Lighthouse do use the standards that we have to follow as a baseline though, which makes the suggestions bear weight.

More concretely, WCAG 2.0 [1] requires a contrast for 4.5:1 for text, and hacker news with it's #F6F6EF background and #828282 has a contrast of 3.54:1, quite far below the WCAG treshold.

This would result in a fine for situations where you are bound by law to follow the WCAG standard.

1: https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-cont...