Accessibility · Legibility
People with poor eyesight struggle with faint text
Pale grey text and faint outlines on buttons and form fields are hard for many people to see.
- Applies to
- every page
- Typical severity
- medium
- Effect on conversions
- medium
- Effort to fix
- Quick to fix
What to look for
Important text (prices, labels, navigation, small print people need) in very light grey, or form fields and buttons whose outlines barely show.
What good looks like
Important text and control outlines are clearly visible.
How to fix it
Make important text darker, and give buttons and form fields outlines that show up clearly against the background.
Based on
- WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum)
- WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.4.11 Non-text Contrast
Related checks
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