Consolidate documentation for recommended color palette
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	Aug 28 2015, 7:43 PM

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Update, or merge, or mark as {{historical}} (and link to the current location), these pages and point them to Wikimedia Design Style Guide

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Design/Color_usage (Archived)
http://livingstyleguide.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page#Intention_colors (Forwarded to Design Style Guide)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Style_guide/Color_selection_and_accessibility (not available any more)
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User_interface_guidelines#Style (archived and note with link to Design Style Guide)

Consider updating (or at least adding "See also" links to) – accomplished where it makes sense:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Accessibility
and more links at https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Accessibility#Colour-blindness_links_and_notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_colours
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Accessibility#Color
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Text_formatting#Color

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Quiddity created this task.Aug 28 2015, 7:43 PM

Quiddity assigned this task to • violetto.

Quiddity raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.

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Quiddity added projects: Accessibility, UI-Standardization, Documentation.

Quiddity removed a parent task: T109915: Improve color palette to comply with WCAG 2.0 min level AA and color-deficiency-friendly. .

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Volker_E moved this task from Unsorted to Current Quarterly Goals on the UI-Standardization board.Oct 1 2015, 6:58 PM

• violetto added a parent task: T111117: [EPIC] Enhance accessibility of OOUI & MediaWiki UI library / LSG / MediaWiki General to screen readers and color-deficient users.Oct 2 2015, 9:23 PM

Quiddity mentioned this in T116549: Provide a color palette and design for buttons that are purely highlighted links, to distinguish them from actual UI buttons.Oct 25 2015, 8:29 PM

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Volker_E mentioned this in T111117: [EPIC] Enhance accessibility of OOUI & MediaWiki UI library / LSG / MediaWiki General to screen readers and color-deficient users.Dec 5 2015, 2:17 AM

• violetto renamed this task from Update the documentation for recommended color palette to Consolidate documentation for recommended color palette.Dec 12 2015, 1:15 AM

@Dodoiste, we can start thinking about the color documentation now that the color task is almost closing!

• violetto moved this task from Current Quarterly Goals to Doing… on the UI-Standardization board.Dec 15 2015, 9:57 PM

• violetto removed a parent task: T111117: [EPIC] Enhance accessibility of OOUI & MediaWiki UI library / LSG / MediaWiki General to screen readers and color-deficient users.Dec 21 2015, 8:13 PM

• violetto added a parent task: T118925: [GOAL] Style Guide - Guide on how/when to use components.

• violetto closed subtask T109915: Improve color palette to comply with WCAG 2.0 min level AA and color-deficiency-friendly. as Resolved.Dec 25 2015, 3:00 AM

• violetto moved this task from Doing… to Researching… on the UI-Standardization board.Dec 25 2015, 3:06 AM

• violetto moved this task from Researching… to Current Quarterly Goals on the UI-Standardization board.

• violetto reopened subtask T109915: Improve color palette to comply with WCAG 2.0 min level AA and color-deficiency-friendly. as Open.Jan 11 2016, 11:06 PM

Danny_B moved this task from Unsorted to Colors on the Accessibility board.Jan 22 2016, 8:51 PM

Danny_B triaged this task as Medium priority.Feb 6 2016, 12:48 AM

• ggellerman edited projects, added UI-Standardization-Kanban; removed UI-Standardization.Feb 23 2016, 7:25 PM

• ggellerman moved this task from Backlog to Current Goals (tracking) on the UI-Standardization-Kanban board.Feb 23 2016, 7:26 PM