Amending the colours used for text and possibly design elements on the website

[SimonMurphyDI]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The current website has some accessibility failures relating to the colour of text elements.

Tagging @edwinmp and @EmmawDI for their information.

Describe the solution you'd like
We'd like to amend the colours so that the website meets WCAG AA or AAA standards. This document sets out the suggested changes
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NftD2UaK3ik2t298E5sY6xaR4PLVSfGkksHxk-K_FPs/edit?usp=sharing

Links to pages
I think this will affect most of the pages on the site - however I'm hopeful that (as it's simply changing hex codes?!) it might be relatively quick/easy!?

Project
We're getting a quote so we can ask the External relations directorate for budget to make the change

Tags
Accessibility improvements

Budget Code
As noted, will confirm once quote OKed.

Additional context
I think the ideal would be to make the fewest changes to the website, so we're hoping we can change the text elements but not the design elements. My preference is that the text colours would be changed on the dev site, and we'd preview how that looks and then confirm it's just the text elements that need to change. Where text reverses out of a colour, changes will also be needed.

Requested Delivery Date:
It would be great to have a ballpark cost asap, as ideally we'd make this update in time for the GHA report launch.

[edwinmp]

Hi @SimonMurphyDI ... while the changes themselves are easy to make, there's a risk that the changes will leak where they shouldn't. Currently, the Pattern Library hasn't created a easy separation of colours for text, so we'll have to change a lot of files to get this done. It would be easier to change the brand colours completely (would take a few minutes really, an hour with testing). Otherwise, it'll take about a day for the text colour updates, with testing.

[SimonMurphyDI]

Thanks @edwinmp
Would it be you working on this?

[edwinmp]

Hi @SimonMurphyDI - apologies. I missed this. @davidebukali or @ThatcherK will be working on this.

[ThatcherK]

@SimonMurphyDI this has been implemented please check staging to test the changes!

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[SimonMurphyDI]

Thanks Thatcher. At the moment I can't see this being a priority, but it is important to keep track of it, as it would be good to do one day.