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Hello.
Fandom recently decided to make some system changes to our wiki's layout, as well as all those of other wikis to make it easier for colourblind people to read and participate in fan wikis.
Essentially, all links require a minimum contrast of 3:1 with the VS Battle wiki's regular text, in order to avoid that all links get automatically underlined.
webaim.org
This is not as unreasonable as you might think, as colourblindness is very common, especially among men.
www.colourblindawareness.org
#151b8d was our previous link colour, but it resulted in all links in our pages being underlined instead, which looks ugly and harder to read in my view.
However, DontTalk and AKM sama experimented with other colours with a sufficiently high contrast to fulfill the requirement to avoid that our wiki links are underlined, and AKM's suggestion of using the colour #0246ce was eventually accepted by both our bureaucrats and the rest of our staff, as it seems like the least intrusive and significant available layout theme change option that we have available.
Here are examples images of what our wiki looked like before the change and what it looks like after the change.
![VSBW colour theme - Option 1.jpg VSBW colour theme - Option 1.jpg](https://vsbattles.com/data/attachments/0/387-812b64dacfdfd7596ac878c5fa94f26f.jpg)
![VSBW colour theme - Option 4.jpg VSBW colour theme - Option 4.jpg](https://vsbattles.com/data/attachments/0/388-ad297adcbb81783f912f8e51e38298f5.jpg)
Fandom recently decided to make some system changes to our wiki's layout, as well as all those of other wikis to make it easier for colourblind people to read and participate in fan wikis.
Essentially, all links require a minimum contrast of 3:1 with the VS Battle wiki's regular text, in order to avoid that all links get automatically underlined.
WebAIM: Contrast Checker
This is not as unreasonable as you might think, as colourblindness is very common, especially among men.
![www.colourblindawareness.org](https://www.colourblindawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/what-is_th1.jpg)
About Colour Blindness - Colour Blind Awareness
![www.colourblindawareness.org](https://www.colourblindawareness.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-cba-id-32x32.png)
#151b8d was our previous link colour, but it resulted in all links in our pages being underlined instead, which looks ugly and harder to read in my view.
However, DontTalk and AKM sama experimented with other colours with a sufficiently high contrast to fulfill the requirement to avoid that our wiki links are underlined, and AKM's suggestion of using the colour #0246ce was eventually accepted by both our bureaucrats and the rest of our staff, as it seems like the least intrusive and significant available layout theme change option that we have available.
Here are examples images of what our wiki looked like before the change and what it looks like after the change.
![VSBW colour theme - Option 1.jpg VSBW colour theme - Option 1.jpg](https://vsbattles.com/data/attachments/0/387-812b64dacfdfd7596ac878c5fa94f26f.jpg)
![VSBW colour theme - Option 4.jpg VSBW colour theme - Option 4.jpg](https://vsbattles.com/data/attachments/0/388-ad297adcbb81783f912f8e51e38298f5.jpg)