Thread:Bane7670/@comment-188432-20131013154845

Hey, you might know about this already, but your code to detect the user name with your welcome message is not actually displaying properly. Also, the grey background isn't a high enough contrast with the orange links to make them particularly visible.

Here's a screenshot of the Welcome message issue. Looks like you're trying to rely on that javascript solution at w:c:starwars. Thing is, though, you really don't need all that code. You can do it quite simply with this:

See, this is your name, rendered instantly without javascript: . #explode is a string function you may never have encountered. What it does is say, "Look at the PAGENAME, but since the page name is, look for the slash (/) and go to the beginning of the line before it. Take only those things from the 0 position to the slash." (Note that this method will appear to fail in page preview, and it won't work anywhere else but the Message Wall.)

As for the colours, here's a great little contrast analyser. In fact, they use colours similar to yours on their text body, so you could probably just steal their colour scheme.

Looks to me like you could go with a background of #202020, a base font-colour of #FFFFFF and a link colour of #FFBA36. That would give you a contrast ratio of almost 10:1, which is far above the W3 Consortium standards of 7:1.

Your current combo is roughly 1.23:1 — meaning it's barely visible. For comparison, white text on a white background is 1:1. If you want people to actually click on the links, they really should be easily readable. 