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Accessibility issue (Mat Checkbox and Mat Slider): Ripple around checkbox or slider is not meeting sufficient color contrast ratio of 3:1 for WCAG AA compliance

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Accessibility area: material/checkbox area: material/slide-toggle
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Description

### Is this a regression?

- [ ] Yes, this behavior used to work in the previous version

### The previous version in which this bug was not present was

_No response_

### Description

- Ripple around the Mat Checkbox and Mat Slider are not reaching the WCAG Non text contrast ratio of 3:1.
- Since the ratio is not met application is in a non complaint state for the mentioned components (Slider and Checkbox)

### Reproduction

StackBlitz link: https://stackblitz.com/edit/components-issue-cwzzkd
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open Stack Blitz url above
2. On the Preview the Mat Slider and Mat Checkbox are provided
3. Select Mat Slider to toggle
4. The Ripple around the round slider color is not meeting the non text contrast ratio for WCAG AA compliance (3:1)
5. Similarly the Ripple around the Checkbox after selecting is not meeting the non text contrast ration for WCAG AA compliance (3:1)

### Expected Behavior

1. Both the Mat Slider and Mat Checkbox ripple color need to meet the non text contrast ratio (3:1) to be compliant since it is effecting Accessibility users.

### Actual Behavior

1. Both the Mat Slider and Mat Checkbox ripple color are not meeting the non text contrast ratio (3:1).

### Environment

- Angular:
- CDK/Material:
- Browser(s):
- Operating System (e.g. Windows, macOS, Ubuntu):

Any help will take our application be more compliant for ADA and Accessibility

Thanks,
Venkat P.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

Research direction

Start with the linked StackBlitz reproduction and inspect the Mat Checkbox and Mat Slider ripple styling. Confirm the fix by checking that each ripple meets the stated WCAG AA non-text contrast ratio of 3:1 in both components.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
angular, typescript
Domain
accessibility, frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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