As part of my migration from Drupal 7, to a new Drupal 11 / Astro / Remark setup, I felt it was also a good time to review the accessibility of the site. 

I hadn't touched the look a feel of this website for years, and I have to admit accessibility wasn't something I had a huge amount of concern about when I first built it. Since then it's something that's built into all the work I do professionally, so it seemed only right to practice what I preach and get my own website up to scratch!

The main issues were text legibility. The original colour scheme used a slightly lighter blue, and that meant the contrast wasn't strong enough - both when it was used for text colour, or as a background with white text on top of it. I also ditched a very light blue that I was using, instead opting for grey for the blog post dates.

I feel like overall the site doesn't look quite as sharp as it did with the previous colour scheme - but that is much less important than everyone actually being able to use it.

Here is a side-by-side, firstly showing the old theme, and then the new one.