Make sure design is accessible + add a 'Themes' feature to allow users to change to high-contrast mode

[jeffreywpearson]

Implement a themes infrastructure so users can modify the look and feel of their instances.

[jeffreywpearson]

Side comment on this that is related. Since this project is in the health care domain, it's probably pretty important to make sure it adheres to the American Disabilities Act for accessibility..... See https://www.ada.gov/resources/web-guidance/#when-the-ada-requires-web-content-to-be-accessible

[AnalogJ]

https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ from @miggle on Discord

[xNS5]

As an idea about this, my university's student union has an interesting feature for adjusting display settings such as light/dark theme and font. https://vu.wwu.edu/

At the top toolbar there's a "Display settings" dropdown. One idea for implementation would be to have a series of themes available that are accessible/screen reader friendly, then store the configuration for that in the user's browser. Another alternative for that would be more database driven so that the display configuration is tied to the user account, but I think that would require a bit more work.

[AnalogJ]

@xNS5 thats a pretty interesting idea. We have support for user settings in the database already, so it shouldn't be a ton of work to add user specific theme setting -- most of the work is actually going to be in the frontend, as we need to create a settings page (and actually define the themes)