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Improve lighthouse score for accessibility

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Domain
accessibility, documentation

Research direction

Start by running Lighthouse against the documentation site and compare the accessibility findings with the screenshots in the issue. Identify the reported color-contrast and ARIA-label problems, then verify that the accessibility score and those findings improve without introducing new issues.

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Description

a11y bug

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Currently the lighthouse score for accessibility on the docs site is pretty low. Mostly due to color contrast issues and a few aria label issues.
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