A color contrast check that should have been easy took me three days to fix
I was updating a client's website menu last week, just changing some button colors to match their new brand guide. The new green looked fine to me, and I ran it through a basic contrast checker against white text. It passed, so I moved on. The problem came when a user with low vision emailed support saying they couldn't read the menu text at all on their specific monitor settings. I went back and tested the same green against off-white backgrounds and lighter grays used elsewhere on the site, and it failed badly. I had to go back to the client, get approval for a darker shade, and then update every single instance across the site's components. What I thought was a 20 minute job turned into three full days of rework and testing. It really showed me that checking one color pair isn't enough, you have to test the whole context. Has anyone else had a simple color swap blow up like that?