Wild Thing on Opera
#654243 on #816575
Body text at this size
And the smaller size most interfaces actually use for paragraphs — the size that decides whether a pair is usable.
Caption text, which almost nothing passes.
WCAG 2.1
1.68:1
Fails AA
Not AAA (7:1). Swapping the two colours gives the same number — the ratio does not know which is the text.
APCA
Lc 12.1
Below Lc 15: the draft treats this as not text.
Dark text on a lighter ground.
Colour difference
ΔE00 14.2
different colours
Above 10 — related only in the sense that both are colours.
What the text colour has to become
#ffeaea is the nearest colour of the same hue that passes AA on #816575, at 4.50:1. Only the lightness moved, and some chroma was given up to stay inside sRGB — which is the point: your colour stays recognisably your colour.
And to someone missing a cone
protanopia
Ratio 1.71:1, ΔE00 15.3.
deuteranopia
Ratio 1.66:1, ΔE00 16.0.
tritanopia
Ratio 1.57:1, ΔE00 11.4.
The weakest of the three is tritanopia, where the two are ΔE00 11.4 apart against 14.2 for a trichromat — still clearly two colours.
Both colours have pages of their own: Wild Thing ·Opera · the same pair the other way round ·all pairs