[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #62831: Bring in lighter background for admin

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#62831: Bring in lighter background for admin
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 Reporter:  karmatosed       |       Owner:  audrasjb
     Type:  defect (bug)     |      Status:  reopened
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  6.8
Component:  Administration   |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  has-patch early  |     Focuses:  accessibility
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Comment (by johnjamesjacoby):

 > The previous discussions didn't formerly pointed out any compliance
 issue or academic (or industry) sources about the readability issue of
 using full white background, but only personal thoughts.

 These are not requirements to try new things, so they are not requirements
 to untry them or pursue them further.

 > maybe we can implement these changes in the "Modern" admin color scheme

 Broadly, and tangentially, the admin color schemes should be considered
 immutable.

 When plugins add support for the included colors, they mirror them for
 their own custom admin-area elements. Changing them in core requires
 plugins to do twice the work, supporting both pre-change & post-change
 colors.

 (This happened a few years ago when all of colors were adjusted for WCAG
 and it meant 2 versions of the original 8, maintaining 16 total until the
 old 8 could be safely dropped.)

 If “Modern” is intended to be kept up-to-date with whatever direction that
 WordPress admin is going, that deserves to be communicated via the GUI and
 dev docs, so everyone knows to expect support for it to always be fluid &
 mid-flight.

 > This doesn't mean we should be stuck with it, it does mean any work has
 to bring over components planned to compliment.

 I like this!

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