element-hq / element-hq/element-web

Accessibility: Color-blind themes for UI

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A-Themes-Official A11y O-Occasional T-Enhancement X-Needs-Design
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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
Add options in Preferences to change certain colors in the UI, to help people with color blindness

#### Why would you like to do it?
I'm colorblind (deuteranopia - green/red), and sometimes it's hard for me to make out whether an user is online (this is an issue that bothers me the most)

#### How would you like to achieve it?

### Have you considered any alternatives?

_No response_

### Additional context

_No response_

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Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start by locating the Preferences UI and the code that displays online status, then determine which UI colors need alternatives for deuteranopia; done would require an agreed design and accessible color options that make user presence distinguishable.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
accessibility, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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