Clearer colors across the dashboard, as a step toward WCAG AA

We’re working to bring the Screenly dashboard up to the WCAG AA accessibility standard, so it’s easy to read and use for everyone, including people with low vision or who use a screen reader. This release is a step along the way.

The dashboard’s colors now follow contrast targets, so text, buttons, fields, and cards stand out clearly from the background behind them. Before, the same kind of element could be one shade on one page and another on the next, and in places a card was hard to tell apart from the page under it. Every page now uses this one set of colors, which also makes the dashboard look the same wherever you are in it.

A few smaller changes help too:

• Only text that takes you somewhere, or opens a dialog, is underlined, so links are easy to recognize.
• Screen readers announce which page of a table you’re on.
• “Go to actions” on a screen or a disabled playlist can be opened in a new tab.
• The quick actions on Home use the same icons as the sidebar, and Home and the sign-in page no longer have decorative background images.