The status pill on the shared dashboard is white 11px text over a light
overlay. SEO measured it two ways, arithmetic and a canvas read-back in
headless Chromium: this plugin's #1a7a52 gave 3.50:1 against a 4.5 minimum,
and six of eight family colours failed along with the no-colour fallback.
Not fixable by choosing a different card colour. The header is a direct pair
and passes at 5.32:1; the pill is a COMPOSITE, and 22% white is a floor — a
card has to reach about 7.7:1 before the pill clears 4.5, which is above the
whole family band. So it is the shared file or seven plugins giving up the
colour the cards exist to carry. 1.2.3 makes the overlay rgba(0,0,0,.18) and
this plugin's pill goes to 7.15:1.
Verified before copying: the hash, and php -w over both files to confirm the
executable code really changed — the diff is the version constant and that one
CSS value, nothing else.
The new assertion renders the dashboard and reads the pill out of what came
back, and it is built around the trap SEO warned about: their first harness
printed "no problem" over a code path it never entered, because it stubbed
wpmgr_cards instead of wpmgr_dashboard_cards and the renderer took its early
return. So the card's own title is asserted first — if the renderer bailed,
nothing after it means anything — and the OLD rgba is asserted ABSENT, because
a check that cannot tell the two versions apart cannot testify about either.
Both proven: against 471b0a2a it fails naming "the old 22% white", and with the
card filter removed it fails at 81 bytes rendered. That 81 is the same number
SEO reported from their own broken harness, which is independent confirmation
it is the same code path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
