Default colors for highlighting changed?

[SydneySpangler]

The color options for highlighting appear to have changed to largely dark red, dark green, and purple (no yellow or lighter colors). This seems to defeat the entire purpose of highlighting, as the text can barely be read. Making a custom highlight color is way more effort than it should be for such a simple task and you can never get it to match with previous custom colors. Could Canvas please just restore the old (regular) highlighting colors?

[ThayerMerritt]

I was needing a sanity check as well, we're seeing this on our Canvas instance also

This is what is currently showing

web image search showed examples looking like this, which is more in line with what I'd expect to see:

 

[NoahBoswell]

@SydneySpangler @ThayerMerritt ,

I wanted to confirm that I am too seeing this in our instance. I don't ever recall seeing this change until recently... interesting!

[CelestialDawnA]

I talked with Canvas Support and we think it may be related to Canvas trying to fix this "Default colors in the RCE color picker do not meet contrast requirements" issue. That one was talking about how some of the color options for the text color were too light to be accessible on a white background. The page says they deployed a fix for that on July 2nd (yesterday), so I'm guessing that it inadvertently also made it where the highlight color options were darker by default.

Hopefully the issue will get resolved fairly soon with this community post and the bug submissions bringing it to their attention. Maybe they will make the text/highlight options use separate color palettes since they currently seem to be linked, or maybe they will have a better solution that considers contrast based on whatever colors are selected for the text/highlight.

Until it is fixed, the only option I can see is to manually select a lighter color in the custom color picker.

[ThayerMerritt]

Thanks for your experience as well! This is what our CSM suggested was probably the case.

Hanging tight!

[CelestialDawnA]

Update message received from Canvas just a bit ago:

Hello, Our engineers have created a fix that has passed initial QA testing. The next step is for this fix to be deployed to our Beta environment, where it will be available for Teachers and other Administrators to test, and to ensure it is working properly before it will be added to our live Production environment. We will provide another update once the fix has been applied to the Beta environment, or if there are any other changes to its status. This ticket will remain in an "On-Hold" status at this time. We appreciate your patience throughout the process of testing and implementing a fix for this issue - if you have any questions about this message or the status of this fix, please feel free to contact Support.

[ellietf]

@CelestialDawnA Are you able to share the ticket number for your discussion on this? I'm also working with Instructure Support. Thanks!

[ReLMacaulay]

We're also experiencing this issue. Below are now the colors for the highlighter—which are way too dark and not accessible for highlighting:

[S_Carter1]

Any ETA for a fix on this?

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

I haven't seen any ETA for a fix anywhere, but this has at least been added to the Known Issues area: [OPEN] Add back the Lightest color row and white b... - Instructure Community - 649271.  I'd suggest following that issue for the latest info and notification of a fix rollout whenever that happens.

-Chris

[JameyBraden]

The color picker has changed as well, with eye dropper to match previous highlighted colors which makes the work around inconvenient as well.  Is this something that can be changed in the meantime until the default palette issue is fixed?current color picker with no eye dropper

[HGHaskell]

I found that if you have text from an older post or course that is highlighted the color you want, you can copy and paste the previous text, then edit the text.  If you delete the text first, it deletes the highlighting you want so I just typed the text I wanted in the middle, then deleted the old text around it.  Obviously not optimal, but it worked for me and might let you keep progressing with your work.

[KatieProfeta]

We have this question as well - it looks like the RCE highlight colors are the SAME as the RCE text colors, which would not allow for any contrast.