Is there a way to make text VISIBLE in the Appearance > Editor?

Hi @vytaulla51,

When I go to Appearance > Editor the text like this:

“Customize the appearance of your website using the block editor”

is a pale grey against a darker grey and is very hard to read.

I just wanted to check if this is the text you’re referring to – and the appearance is like in this screenshot?

I do know that the contrast of the text/background here would have been considered in the design process – but I would like to check if this is the way you’re seeing it in your site?

Yes. When you mouse over the “Templates” or “Template parts” they turn white and are readable. But the descriptive text doesn’t change, remaining the medium-light greyish color – need more contrast!
Thanks.

Hi @vytaulla51 – thanks for clarifying – I do see what you mean.

For what it is worth – the color scheming (and contrast) of that whole left sidebar of the Site Editor is something that is currently under review from designers within the project.

They’ll definitely be considering the contrast and accessibility as a part of that.

Great!

Another suggestion: can you add to the paragraph block the ability to highlight the para and convert it to a heading? I often cut and paste text into blog posts and it’s a bore to have to do it in chunks or go in and have to find paragraphs that should be an h2 or h3 etc. and have to add a header block and paste in the words and delete the paragraph block…

Or is there a way to do this already that I’m unaware of?

Right now I have found that I can paste the piece into a text editor and can add <h2> </h2> around the to-be-heading and then paste that into the page or post in the block editor and the headings are automatically applied. But it would be nice if I didn’t have to do that.

Thanks!

Hey @vytaulla51

Another suggestion: can you add to the paragraph block the ability to highlight the para and convert it to a heading? I often cut and paste text into blog posts and it’s a bore to have to do it in chunks or go in and have to find paragraphs that should be an h2 or h3 etc. and have to add a header block and paste in the words and delete the paragraph block…

Or is there a way to do this already that I’m unaware of?

Great news! There’s definitely a way to do that already.

If you click the very left-hand button in the toolbar that shows above the Paragraph (when selected) it will let you transform the block to be another type of block (including a heading).

You can read more about doing that in the Support documentation for paragraphs here:
https://www.ads-software.com/documentation/article/paragraph-block/#block-toolbar

That’s great – thanks!