The quest for better SEO …
PageSpeed fail : it seems to think all my sidebar text (and banner text) is white on white
Anybody come across anything similar / workarounds ?
I’m suspecting this is a bug as another site www.peteryates.co.uk reports the very same accessibility problem in PageSpeed
HI, here https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ you can check the contrast.
Your first issue:
Peter Yates Snowdonia, c.1943
Foreground #7D7D7D (Text color)
Background #FFFFFF
Make the text darker and try again.
OK, I agree Torsten
However, the main problem I have is that Google ‘accessibility’ in PageSpeed believes that all my sidebar text is white … and that it sits on a white background.
It thinks my text is invisible
Likewise it thinks my title and description text is illegible on top of the banner
… in real life - both are ok
Jol
Aha - I am running Safari … seems Safari doesn’t show the text but Chrome does. Good find Torsten
So the issue comes back to contrast
They want a LOT of contrast to pass this test, it would seem
and the smaller the text - the more contrast they want
Yet you run Pagespeed again and get 2 points less on performance … changing nothing
Very frustrating
I also get 1-5 points difference each time running Pagespeed.
Interesting - perhaps down to server performance or bandwidth somewhere out of our control!!
Hey thanks for all your kind help today Torsten.
Jol
You are welcome
Happy Eastern
Torsten