Version 3 Text Colour

@joshbiz – Any chance you could send a screenshot of what you’d like to see changed? Just want to be sure a) we’re clear what you’re talking about and b) that what you are seeing looks like what we are seeing.

Once we have that, I’ll share it with the team and we can review what’s possible.

Thanks.
Erick

Yes, sure.

See this screenshot

It’s the green text which is an issue. Wherever it appears (throughout most NextGEN screens), the contrast between the colour of the text and background isn’t sufficient and it won’t pass accessibility tests.

This is accentuated by the text being quite small. I never had an issue with previous versions. The buttons (with white text on green) are also poor.

Not surprisingly, it fails the WebAIM accessibility test (text colour #9fbb1a against a white background #ffffff.

I don’t have any visual impairments but still struggle to read the green text, wherever it appears. Those with impairments such as colour blindness and similar would certainly struggle. It ought to be as accessible as possible and this, IMO, is a backwards move for the plug-in, despite the great new design.

I haven’t ever seen any other plug-in interface that uses such a poor colour choice for important text and contrast. I love the new design but this text colour is dreadful. There’s no harm in using the green as a general theme colour (I like the shade) but not for essential UI components.

I hope you can appreciate my comments and attend to it.

Best wishes,
Josh.

I’d also like to add that the grey text should also be darker too.

This also fails text contrast accessibility guidelines: Grey text test result

If you drag the slider for ‘Lightness’ left, you can easily see how much darker it ought to be to meet accessibility guidelines.

Thanks @joshbiz for the detailed input. I’ll share with team for discussion, and have us experiment with some changes to keep the feel but improve on accessibility/contrast.

@anna-blume – thanks for adding your vote.

If anyone else lands here with same concerns, please post your vote/support as well.

Erick (CEO at Imagely)

If anyone else lands here with same concerns, please post your vote/support as well.

No, do not do that. I’ve removed the vote post.

That isn’t what these forums are for and the topic will get closed if that happens. These are support forums and if someone else needs support then per the forum guidelines please start your own topic.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/guidelines/#post-in-the-best-place

You can do so here.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/nextgen-gallery/#new-post

@edanzer Don’t use signatures in these forums, that’s prohibited. Yes, even this.

Erick (CEO at Imagely)

That’s prohibited in these forums as it’s been horribly abused in the past by others. Yes, bad people ruin it for others. Please refrain from that.

https://www.ads-software.com/support/guidelines/#avoid-signatures

If you want, then ask the plugin author account @imagely to post a sticky topic where you can have that vote and conversation on your site. But do not have that vote on this site, that topic will get closed once it’s up.

Hey Jan – You’ve done a great job in the forums for a long time. Thanks for monitoring and keeping them tight. Sorry if I’m pushing (or breaking) boundaries ??

• This reply was modified 6 years, 6 months ago by Erick Danzer.

Hi,

thanks for updating to V3!

As far as the already mentioned poor contrast of the text (green and grey) is concerned I fully agree to that. Please encrease the contrast significantly.

Maybe that I’m not fully familiar with NextGEN features, I’m just a beginner. But where (in a gallery) can I see the file-size of the uploaded pictures and the file-size and the px-size of the thumbs as well?

Thanks für your support in advance!

Best regards
Werner

I think you should start a new thread for new/different subjects. The forum is quite quite strict about this, for good reason.

You can click on image thumbnails when viewing a gallery in the back-end (under ‘Manage Galleries’); this shows you the enlarged version. The pixel dimensions are shown next to each thumbnail. I think you have to FTP into your site to see the file sizes (wp-content > gallery >). And you can set image sizes under ‘Other Options’.

Hi,

you are right, I start a new thread.

Regards
Werner

Yup, as noted above, probably best to start new thread especially if you have separate issues (ie, image sizes).

We have noted your feedback on the contrast. And @joshbiz’s response on image sizes is correct.

Thanks!