Patrick Bass Area: Admin plane (audit p12) · Surface: /admin/learn/scorm/{id}, /admin/learn/courses/{id}/edit, course-block forms, paths/edit · Dimension: contrast · Severity: major
The team built a `.lrn-pill` class system precisely because hardcoded colors break in dark mode (style.css:55673-55678 comment), and added dark rescues for those classes — but the inline-style error/notice boxes are unreachable by those rescues. On the default dark admin theme, the SCORM import-failure reason, course review-gate messages, and form validation errors render dark-red/dark-amber on dark navy. A critical error message you can't read is the worst case.
Evidence
Inline styles (which no [data-theme] CSS rule can override without !important on a matching selector, and these have no selector) hardcode dark text on faint tints: scorm/show.php:23 `background: rgba(239,68,68,.14); color: #b91c1c;` (the 'Import failed:' error), scorm/show.php:27 `color: #92400e;`, courses/edit.php:156 `color: #9b1c1c;` (review-gate warning), blocks/_form.php:196 `background: rgba(251,191,36,.18); color: #92400e;` (milestone notice), paths/edit.php:60 `color: #9b1c1c;`, plus _form.php error boxes (`color:#b91c1c`) in courses/_form.php:10, pools/_form.php:7, modules/_form.php:15, lessons/_form.php:15, activities/_form.php:44. Default theme card is #161B36 (style.css:182 + stylish-black --color-bg-card).Suggested fix. Replace inline `color:#b91c1c/#92400e/#9b1c1c` boxes with the existing `.lrn-pill--danger`/`--warn` classes (which already have dark rescues) or with semantic tokens; at minimum add a brighter dark-theme text color. These cannot be fixed via stylesheet alone because they are inline styles.
Filed by the automated tenant-app audit and adversarially evidence-verified. Status: verified. Open — not yet actioned.
Patrick Bass
@mobieus
