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by cratermoon 103 days ago
WAVE shows that light mode is 0000ff on ffffff, for a contrast of 8.59:1. For my tastes, that's a bit too much contrast, and I'd prefer the background be very slightly off-white, around fafafa. The example "grey text on an off-white background." is 6D6D6D on EFEFEF, for a WCAG failing contract ratio of 4.49:1.

Amusingly, the paragraph near the end of the article that begins "Truth is stranger than fiction.." is not flagged as failing. It's 6D6D6D on FFFFFF, for a ration of 5.17:1. That passes WCAG AA but fails AAA.

https://wave.webaim.org/report#/https://catskull.net/stop-us...

Results for dark mode may vary, but I don't see a way to force it for analysis purposes.