Tooltip text has a contrast problem

[Mikko Ohtamaa]

Maverick Meerkat beta

Steps to reproduce

1. Start any app with white background, fullscreen
2. Hold mouse cursor on Unity launcher application icon
3. Tooltip appears

Expected result:

Tooltip text is readable

Actual result:

Tooltip text is not very readable - since the white hotspot in the middle of tooltip becomes too white for the white text

Suggested fix: Make tooltip bg darker all the range

[David Barth (dbarth)]

Thanks for your feedback. This is a design issue, so I'm linking the bug with an ayatana-design issue.

[Mikko Ohtamaa (mikko-red-innovation)]

The matter is not an opinion if the accesibility guidelines for text contrast are not fulfilled.

I am not sure what guidelines Ubuntu follows, but at least here is a simple contrast tester:

http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/