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🐞 Video Titles Font Color

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Description

Concise Description

Text color is fine for rest of site but video titles in suggested show up in black, making it hard/impossible to read when using black theme.

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Browser/s

Firefox

Other Browser:

No response

'Steps to reproduce' - Which of our features is required for the bug to happen?

Click on a video, then suggested videos on the side will show up like this.

Since when?

Very recently, I only noticed yesterday.

Does the bug still happen when you log out of YouTube?

Yes

..No? Then please paste your yt.config_.EXPERIMENT_FLAGS. Twice (With the error & Without)

No response

Are any errors or related log-messages shown in the Browser-Console? (F12)

Yes, it identifies a contrast issue for the sugggested video titles.

Tested as the only active extension? (incognito mode or another browser users):

Yes

Expected preferred behavior:

Text color shows up uniformly, and with plenty contrast.

ImprovedTube Version

4.1400

Your Settings (From the Extension's -Hamburger menu > Settings > Backup & reset > Export settings)

improvedtube.json

Your YouTube-Document

No response

OS / Device:

MacOS; M2 Mac Mini

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Research direction

Reproduce the issue in Firefox by opening a video and checking the suggested videos beside it while using the black theme. Start with the browser console's contrast warning and inspect the styling applied to suggested video titles. Done means the titles use a readable, consistent color with sufficient contrast in the black theme.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
accessibility, frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
42/100

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