Contrast of Sorting icons

jenniaynlynn

Hi!

Will DataTables address the lack of contrast for the sorting icons to meet the new WCAG 2.1 requirements for contrast of interactive icons? Here's more info: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/non-text-contrast.html.

Thanks so much!

allan

Thanks for posting this.

The default icons won't be changing in v1.x of DataTables, but it is easy to swap the icons out with your own images if you require (they are in the download package, or you can override the CSS from the CDN).

In DataTables v2 the sorting icons will be provided by a font, which is much easier to change the colour of. That part is actually committed, but there are loads of other things still to be done before v2 is released.

Our Bootstrap integration (and some others like Semantic UI) use fonts for the sorting indication already and the colour of them can be easily modified.

Regards,
Allan