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To colour or not to colour.

I've no objections to colouring the entries with party colours. Support the same, for the other deputy premier articles. Note colouring is used at the Deputy Premier of Prince Edward Island, Deputy Premier of Quebec and Deputy Premier of Ontario articles. But not at the Deputy Premier of Manitoba article.GoodDay (talk) 23:42, 19 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Just to be clear, I'm not objecting to the colouring itself: I'm objecting to using combinations of foreground text and background colours that clearly violate MOS:COLOR contrast requirements. I'd recommend just colouring a separate column (as is done on multiple pages) as that removes any issue. If text on a coloured background is to be used, it must meet MOS:COLOR contrast guidelines per WP:ACCESS. —Joeyconnick (talk) 05:12, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

A colour bar in front of the row would be fine, but the Ontario list's practice of also colour-blocking the political party column is not appropriate; per MOS:COLOR, people with vision impairments (colour blindness, etc.) may have serious difficulty reading text on saturated colour backgrounds like that, so we shouldn't be colour-blocking a column whose text conveys important information, and should limit the use of colour to a bar in front of the row rather than colour-blocking the background. Bearcat (talk) 11:36, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I'll repeat what I mentioned on Joeyconnick's talk page: the "number on coloured cell" is common, even standard, on Canadian pages— from Deputy Premier of Prince Edward Island to List of premiers of British Columbia to List of prime ministers of Canada to Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada— so if this is truly a major MOS violation, then this should really be raised at WP:CANADA, so that a) everyone can be made aware, b) a solution can be devised and c) there can be a co-ordinated effort to fix it. — Kawnhr (talk) 16:44, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]