[Color/Contrast/Visibility Accessibility] Make GPT4All color/contrast/visibility accessible

[shadowplumber]

Make GPT4All color/contrast/visibility accessible

I work for a university in Utah, and we have a full accessibility department who has to test new software before we can offer it to students. I'm going to paste the results of their accessibility test below (everything that pertains to color/contrast/visibility). Since it's "GPT4All", making the desktop applications accessible should hopefully be a big priority :)

Test report summary:

GPT4All was tested for minimum functional accessibility using a Windows computer, Windows Magnifier, ZoomText, Colour Contrast Analyzer, and native color/contrast settings. The following accessibility issues were identified:

1. There are color contrast errors.
2. User is unable to enlarge text/interface within application.

Accessibility testing indicates that GPT4All is likely to present accessibility barriers to some individuals with disabilities.

Fine-grained test report

• Test: Use of Color/Styling
  • Expected Outcome: 1) Color contrast is WCAG 2.0 AA compliant. 2) Information is not conveyed using color alone. 3) Information is not conveyed using styling alone. 4) Application works with native color/contrast settings.
  • Actual Outcome: 1) The Colour Contrast Analyzer identified two color contrast errors, failing to meet minimum WCAG contrast ratios. 2) There is no information conveyed using color alone. 3) There is no information conveyed using styling alone. 4) Application does not work with native color/contrast settings.
  • Result: FAIL
  • Severity: Moderate
• Test: Enlarging Text
  • Expected Outcome: Text should wrap to stay on screen when enlarged to 200%; actionable features should remain on visible screen.
  • Actual Outcome: User is unable to enlarge interface/text within application. However, does work well with screen magnification tools.
  • Result: FAIL
  • Severity: Minor

[manyoso]

The Colour Contrast Analyzer identified two color contrast errors, failing to meet minimum WCAG contrast ratios.

Can you link the tool used or say which colors did not have sufficient contrast?

[shadowplumber]

Hopefully our Accessibility Manager can answer some of these questions (specifically which colors caused the test fail), but I'll do my best until then.

• Pretty sure that this is the Windows Magnifier that was referenced.
• Here is ZoomText (same vendor as JAWS).
• Here is Colour Contrast Analyzer
• And pretty sure these are the native color/contrast settings referenced.

[shadowplumber]

These are the areas that failed color contrast:

“Here is what our accessibility manager told me:
The color combination for those elements passes for large text. So they could either bump up the color contrast by making the gray darker or (my recommendation would be) to bump the text up to 18pt or 24px.”

[cosmic-snow]

Note there are 3 available themes in v3.0.0 -- see the settings.

It might just be a matter of adding another, high-contrast one if none of these 3 pass the test.

[shadowplumber]

That's good to know!