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Replayed the 2026-05-08-rank4-gpt55 corpus (104 GPT-5.5 dashboard
outputs, 95 applied) through the new detectTextBgContrast and got
41 hits — 43% of designs flagged. Sampling showed almost all of them
were industry-standard Tailwind palettes used as intentional tertiary
text:
- #94A3B8 (slate-400) caption on #FFFFFF, ratio 2.56 ← Linear/Vercel/Notion
- #2563EB (blue-600) chip on #DBEAFE, ratio 4.24 ← shadcn/ui tag pattern
- #10B981 (emerald-500) delta on #FFFFFF, ratio 2.54 ← stat-positive pattern
- #64748B (slate-500) row text on #F1F5F9, ratio 4.34 ← muted-row pattern
WCAG-AA 4.5:1 is a compliance threshold, not a design-diagnosis
threshold. The user-reported pain point is "white-on-cream" (1.10:1)
and "white-on-white" (1.0:1) — disasters that read as obviously broken
to anyone, not borderline-WCAG cases that production designers ship
on purpose.
Drop default normalThreshold to 2.5 and largeThreshold to 2.0. Open
both as opts so callers needing a stricter audit (e.g. compliance
report) can bring back WCAG-AA without re-implementing the walk.
Replay confirms the new thresholds:
- 41 hits → 6 hits (signal-to-noise from 50% to 0% on the sample)
- All 6 remaining are true positives:
* 3 × slate-400 on slate-100 (caption color used on a non-white
bg — designer mis-paired the palette)
* 3 × white initial on amber-500 avatar (the readability gap the
industry routinely ignores; legitimately worth flagging)
Codex review (a47ef892f72a2d315) confirmed the direction, the
specific numeric pair (2.5 not 3.0 — 3.0 still hits slate-400 at 2.56),
parameterization over a mode-flag, and keeping severity at info-only.
Side-quest: scripts/ab-corpus/replay-detectors.ts +
inspect-contrast-hits.ts ship with this commit so the next detector
calibration doesn't have to rebuild the harness from scratch.
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