sphinx-rtd-theme color contrast extension
This increases some color contrast in sphinx_rtd_theme to better satisfy web content accessibility guidelines. This is by no means a proper fix, but some quick hacks by an uneducated person. It tries to make minimal changes, though.
This package will be deprecated once sphinx_rtd_theme is improved upstream: https://github.com/readthedocs/sphinx_rtd_theme/issues/971
Currently it is not on PyPI (but could be), because I am hoping sphinx_rtd_theme will be updated before that is necessary. To install, add this to requirements.txt:
https://github.com/AaltoSciComp/sphinx_rtd_theme_ext_color_contrast/archive/master.zip
And then add the extension in conf.py:
extensions = [ ... 'sphinx_rtd_theme_ext_color_contrast', ]
Style changes
Text contrast:
Increase link text saturation
Increase literal text saturation
Increase footer contrast
Update pygments elements for contrast
Admonition colors
Make the admonition title backgrounds darker.
These are very long CSS selectors, copied from what the current theme uses.
Make the sidebar background darker
Other changes
Workaround for https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-togglebutton/issues/75 . This isn’t exactly “color contrast” but this is the repo we use for sphinx-rtd-theme fixups, so it can go here for now.
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