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bug: Government of Canada wordmark unreadable in high contrast mode

Open Adele-Strub-DFO opened this issue 9 months ago • 3 comments

Prerequisites | Prérequis

GC Design System Components Package and Version | Paquet et version des composants de Système de design GC

Your website

Current Behavior | Comportement observé

When the computer is put into a high contrast theme, the wordmark for Government of Canada in the header and footer become unreadable.

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The windows settings that enables high contrast theme Image

Expected Behavior | Comportement attendu

I would expect an inverted version of the wordmark with white text instead, similar to how the other text becomes white

System Info | Information sur le système

Windows 11, chrome

Steps to Reproduce | Étapes pour reproduire le bogue

  1. User windows 11 accessibility > contrast themes to set a theme, such as 'aquatic'
  2. View any page that uses the header and footer of GC Design

Code Reproduction URL | URL de reproduction du code

No response

Additional Information | Informations supplémentaires

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Adele-Strub-DFO avatar Mar 18 '25 21:03 Adele-Strub-DFO

Needs discussion, a few ways to solve.

adorayi avatar Mar 26 '25 15:03 adorayi

This is a FIP colour and will require alignment with DTO before implementing.

adorayi avatar Mar 26 '25 15:03 adorayi

@daine and @SmartMouthWords please review this one for policy, DTO, FIP team alignment before we can proceed.

adorayi avatar Mar 26 '25 15:03 adorayi