Links show too little contrast in dark mode

[guerda]

I am using Tusky daily and I really like this app. What I see as an issue is the dark theme (night theme) in combination with links (hashtags, URLs) etc, as these have too little contrast to be readable in a night time setting.

I tried to figure it out and it seems that the link color is tusky_blue according to

Tusky/app/src/main/res/values/colors.xml

Line 3 in 8c519af

<color name="tusky_blue">#2b90d9</color>

, which translates to #2b90d9
As far as I can see, the background in posts is #282c37 (tusky_grey_20).

According to WebAIM, those two colors have a contrast of 4.04:1 and fails WCAG AAA in both normal and large text.

I propose to adapt the link color or the background color, to increase the contrast. For example, the link color #83BEF1 would pass all four checks with WebAIM.

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• Tusky Version: 21.0

• Android Version: 13

• Android Device: Pixel 7

• I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.

[Lakoja]

(Slightly related: #3178

And even more slightly related: #1222 - darker background for example could also solve that partly)

[Lakoja]

(Just for reference: the two blue tints with 4.6 contrast each would be 217aba (for light) and 3c9add (for dark).)

[guerda]

Any update on this? I assume it's a question of consideration, not feasibility.

[visualstuart]

Chiming in, this is an accessibility issue for me. As I understand it, people with cataracts lose some of their ability to perceive blue.

[joergi]

It's really hard to reading in the app at night in the bedroom.
It would be super helpful, if we can choose the color ourself