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This page in a nutshell: Color coding of music genre infoboxes is confusing to those outside of WP:Music and goes against WP:COLORCONTRAST |
I was actually about to start a discussion on such a change. All Wikipedia pages should meet the standards of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level AA, including SC 1.4.3 (contrast.) As you have noted, many music genre infoboxes do not. In fact, Category:Articles using Template:Infobox music genre with invalid colour combination is one of the largest extant accessibility tracking categories. This is a not-insignificant issue. I think equally as important is that differently-colored infoboxes for genres ultimately impart no additional information to the reader. There is no indication on the infobox itself that the color relates to a genre (or in some cases, super-family of genres) or has any particular meaning whatsoever. The only guide to the colors exist on this page. I believe that for both of these reasons the bgcolor and color parameters in Infobox music genre and music genre footers should be deprecated. There's really no reason that they need to be colored other than that's how we've always done it.
WCAG Success Criterion 1.4.3 <link>https://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-contrast.html</link>