microsoft / microsoft/vscode-docs
Update images containing text on transparent backgrounds
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Description
Audit & update images containing text over transparent backgrounds. This currently causes accessibility issues in dark theme:
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by auditing the documentation images containing text on transparent backgrounds, using the two images in the issue as visual references. Identify affected images and update them so annotation strings remain readable in both light and dark themes; done means the affected images no longer cause the described contrast problem.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- vscode
- Domain
- accessibility, documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100