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Improve alert component accessibility (colors, icons, etc)

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aspect: accessibility component: dashboard meta: never-stale needs visual design team: webapp
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Description

Problem to solve

The new alert component introduced back in https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/pull/8783 was the next iteration of the alert component improved for https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/7613.

🅰️ We're tracking in https://github.com/gitpod-io/gitpod/issues/9411 the pending migration of the previously used InfoBox and AlertBox components to the new Alert component.

🅱️ However, there's still room for improving the alert component design including colors, icons, and variations of those in light and dark themes.

See also relevant discussion (internal).

Alert Component / Info Variant / Light Theme Alert Component / Info Variant / Dark Theme
alert-info-light alert-info-dark
Alert Component / Warning Variant / Light Theme Alert Component / Info Variant / Dark Theme
alert-warning-light alert-warning-dark
Proposal

This issue acts as a placeholder for tracking these improvements and the next iteration of the alert component.

Thankfully, now that the new alert component is in place we will only have to update the designs in one place. 🔮

Designs

TBD (To be discussed)

Contributor guide

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First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start with components/dashboard/src/components/Alert.tsx and review the linked discussion and screenshots for the proposed light and dark variants. Designs are still TBD, so first clarify the colors, icons, and variations before changing the component. Done means the agreed accessibility and design improvements are implemented in the Alert component.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
accessibility, design, frontend
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
20/100

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