Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline

[wael-zwaiter]

Currently the colours are

foreground: #ffffff
Background: #bfbfbf (grey75)

The contrast ratio for such combination is 1.8,

This level does not even reach the minimum contrast of 3.0 for large scale text.

Emacs should start caring about colour contrast by itself.

> Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 2021 at 7:55 PM
> From: tomas@tuxteam.de
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: [External] : Cannot see what is written on modeline
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 10:47:52PM +0000, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > When I call "emacs27 -q", the mode line has both background and
> > > foreground white.
> > >
> > > I thus cannot see what is written on the modeline.
> >
> > It costs extra to be able to read the mode-line. ;-)
>
> This is sooo 2000s. Nowadays you pay to /disable/ a (dis?)service [1].
> To be fair, it seems to have been a bug [2]. Nonetheless, somewhat...
> Freudian.
>
> Cheers
>
> [1] https://nitter.cc/moyix/status/1388586550682861568
> [2] https://github.com/docker/roadmap/issues/183
>
>  - t
>