On 3 August 2017 at 23:21, Danny Horn <dhorn(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
WMF's Community Tech team team is happy to
announce that Wikitext Editor
Syntax Highlighting has been released as a beta feature today on all LTR
Wikimedia projects!
I'm all in favour of having syntax highlighting - I teach people to
edit wikicode, and I find it helps them to learn it more quickly.
I've been using the syntax highlighting gadget en.Wikipedia:
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Remember_the_dot/Syntax_highlighter
for some time now. I've just disabled, it, and instead enabled the new
beta feature.
My first impression is that it is lacking in contrast - it's far
harder, now, to differentiate the various types of content. Indeed the
colour pairs used (e.g. #8800CC vs. #AAAAB3) fail WCAG web
accessibility guidelines for colour contrast.
I realise that choice of styling colours is a "bikeshed" matter, but
contrast ratio is a quantifiable and objective accessibility issue.
Also, because the script does not load immediately, the larger
headings cause the page to "dance" as the script kicks in.
What plans are there to either receive and act on feedback such as
this, or to provide greater user-customisation options?