Did the epic labels change color after datacenter v8.13?

Nicole Downes_yyei04

We just upgraded to v8.16 datacenter, and the epic labels have become very hard to read. 

For example, black text on dark purple label. This could not have met accessibility standards???

Is this new or am I imagining this?

Pawel Wodkowski

Hi Nicole, we've been making many accessibility improvements in Jira; one of them was fixing contrast issues of epic labels. As a result, these colors are now more accessible for users with low vision. 

Unfortunately, in Jira 8.16, we introduced a bug that you mention. It got fixed in Jira 8.17 that we released in May this year. 

A quick workaround I can suggest before you upgrade to the latest version is to add style definition to the announcement banner to overwrite these dark colors.

#jira .ghx-label-0.ghx-label-0,
#jira .ghx-label-1.ghx-label-1,
#jira .ghx-label-4.ghx-label-4,
#jira .ghx-label-5.ghx-label-5,
#jira .ghx-label-7.ghx-label-7,
#jira .ghx-label-11.ghx-label-11,
#jira .ghx-label-12.ghx-label-12,
#jira .ghx-label-13.ghx-label-13,
#jira .ghx-label-14.ghx-label-14 {
color: #fff;
}

#jira .ghx-label-2.ghx-label-2,
#jira .ghx-label-3.ghx-label-3,
#jira .ghx-label-6.ghx-label-6,
#jira .ghx-label-8.ghx-label-8,
#jira .ghx-label-9.ghx-label-9,
#jira .ghx-label-10.ghx-label-10 {
color: #172b4d;
}

With regards, 

Pawel Wodkowski
Senior Designer