I've looked into the current color contrast and it looks like Stratosphere blue (#69F) is AA or AAA compliant against our themed background colors, unfortunately it does not pass AA contrast with the plain text color (#FFF). In order to pass contrast against the plain text color we would need to change the link color to #3E71D6 in which case it would no longer past contrast agains the Dark (#2E3136) background color.

Unfortunately, in order to have AA compliance against the Dark background color we need to use the current color. There isn't really a solution that allows for necessary contrast against all of the different color combinations we have present. I would also point out that the link color on Apple's dark mode is also not complaint against white.

Text color contrast

Background color contrast

Possible solutions:

• Have different link colors on Dark and Black mode, with Black mode attaining compliance against all of the different color combinations by updating the link color to #3E71D6. Keep #69F for Dark mode
• Same as above, but sunset Dark mode
• Keep colors as they are
• Keep colors as they are but allow for a setting to be turned on where links are underlined

@Volker_E, do you have any suggestions for this conundrum? (thanks in advance for your help!)

@cmadeo Would you mind sharing screenshots of the current states in white, dark & black mode?

@Volker_E thanks for taking a look, here are the current states

Default	Dark	Black

There seems to be a solution requested, that's out of touch with level AA contrast requirements from reading the user feedback. The level AA contrast ratio for links to surrounding text has to fulfill 3:1, not 4.5:1, see https://webaim.org/blog/wcag-2-0-and-link-colors/

Nonetheless, I don't think that there will be one blue fitting all these requirements.
A ratio-requirements achieving color were #37d (without going into details on other design questions connected) would provide 4.35:1 to #fff and 4.82:1 to #fff. For black-mode. Dark mode would need a different link color from my estimation.

@Volker_E thanks for your help and input!

@JMinor do you have a preference for separate blues for black and dark mode or would it be better to look for a way to allow for underlining links? I'm open to move forward on either.

If we want to detect iOS high contrast setting this looks like it may be relevant:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32463170

@Mhurd would you mind sharing a screenshot with me of an article in black mode with underlined links?

@cmadeo Sorry about the delay here are all the themes w/underlines:

Thanks @Mhurd! These look good, I think it'd be great to go forward with the plan of underlining links when iOS high contrast setting is detected