Colour selections fail accessibility guidelines

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Since Oct 18, 2023.

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Description

Area-Accessibility Needs-Triage :mag:
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Steps to reproduce

PowerShell 7.3.7. Use some commands and trigger "hint" text. For example see the image below:

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As someone who is slightly colourblind, I can barely see the help text and it certainly does not pass accessibility guidelines according to Accessibility Insights for Windows.

I have tried changing the colour scheme but they all seem to suffer from similar issues and I could not find one that made all the test have a good contrast.

Expected behavior
Text should all be easily readable, albeit perhaps with a need to select a "high contrast" colour scheme.
Actual behavior
Various different text colours, of which the help text is one example, are hard if not impossible to read.
Error details
None.
Environment data
PS > $PSVersionTable

Name                           Value
----                           -----
PSVersion                      7.3.7
PSEdition                      Core
GitCommitId                    7.3.7
OS                             Microsoft Windows 10.0.22621
Platform                       Win32NT
PSCompatibleVersions           {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0…}
PSRemotingProtocolVersion      2.3
SerializationVersion           1.1.0.1
WSManStackVersion              3.0

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