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In light mode the docs search field was almost invisible: its fill was code-bg at 60% opacity (about #f7f7f7 on a #fafafa page) with a transparent border, and the placeholder and icon used muted at 40% (about 1.7:1 contrast).

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The field now uses the full code-bg fill with a border-border outline, like the Release/Nightly control below it. Hover and focus darken the border instead of changing the fill. The placeholder, icon, result count, excerpt, path, and status text use full-strength muted (#737373 light, #a3a3a3 dark) instead of 40-80% opacity. The light-theme --muted token also moves from #737373 to #707070 (review feedback): #737373 on the #f5f5f5 field is 4.35:1, below WCAG AA for this 11-13px text; #707070 is 4.54:1. That token is site-wide, so all light-theme muted text is slightly darker. Dark theme is unchanged. No new strings.

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Fixed: Docs search field and muted text have readable contrast in light mode.

Verified: bun run typecheck, eslint on the file, lint:complexity, and Playwright captures of /docs/getting-started in both themes against a local dev server with CMUX_DOCS_CHANNEL=release.

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Raises the contrast of the docs search field so it's clearly visible in light mode.

The field previously used a semi-transparent fill with a transparent border, making it nearly invisible against the page, with placeholder and icon contrast at roughly 1.7:1. It now uses the full code-bg fill with a border-border outline like the release/nightly control below it; hover darkens the border, and focus uses the full-strength muted outline to meet the 3:1 non-text contrast target. The placeholder, icon, result count, excerpt, path, and status text all use full-strength muted instead of 40–80% opacity.

The light-theme --muted token also darkens from #737373 to #707070 so the field text meets WCAG AA 4.5:1. Since that token is site-wide, all light-theme muted text is slightly darker; dark theme is unchanged. No new strings.

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    • Improved the contrast and visibility of the documentation search input, icon, status messages, result count, excerpts, and result paths.
    • Adjusted the light theme’s muted text color for a subtle contrast change.

The search field used code-bg at 60% opacity with a transparent border, so
in light mode it nearly vanished into the page, and the placeholder and icon
used muted at 40% (about 1.7:1). Use the full code-bg fill with a border-border
outline and full-strength muted for the placeholder, icon, and result metadata.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The docs search component has updated input, icon, status, result-count, excerpt, and result-path styling. Search behavior and markup structure are unchanged.

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Docs search styling

Layer / File(s) Summary
Search input and result styles
web/app/[locale]/components/docs-search.tsx
The input now has a visible border, solid code-background color, and foreground text. The search icon, status, result count, excerpts, and result paths use updated text colors.

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Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 64d52

Some light-theme docs search text remains slightly harder to read than the WCAG AA contrast threshold recommends. This is a localized accessibility issue; dark-theme contrast is sufficient.

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lawrencecchen and others added 3 commits September 27, 2026 20:55
#737373 on the #f5f5f5 search field is 4.35:1, below WCAG AA for the
11-13px text there. #707070 reaches 4.54:1; dark theme is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The 60% border was about 2.3:1 on the light field, below the 3:1 non-text
target, and close to the hover border.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Merge receipt for 64a616e0ac: every check was green at merge (19 verified; 16 skipped by policy). Full suite runs on main after merge.

rustybret pushed a commit to rustybret/bmux that referenced this pull request Sep 28, 2026
10505af fix(cloud): recover machine list on app foreground (manaflow-ai#15100) (manaflow-ai#15104)
22835e8 Docs: raise search field contrast (manaflow-ai#14365)
18abc85 Report a non-running terminal as surface_unavailable in read_text (manaflow-ai#15101)
b23420c Document and tool in-place cmux-tui upgrades for running Cloud machines (manaflow-ai#15122)
f1c54d0 ci: charge newer runs one root runner each when gui runners are on (manaflow-ai#15124)
b7ce8d0 Bound the Iroh release-gate launcher
3606617 Stop CLI Sentry floods from caller state and unattributed journal failures (manaflow-ai#15103)
446581e ci: send owned gui jobs past a round of the gui queue to Blacksmith (manaflow-ai#15115)
507890c ci: refit the warm-distance model on 741 owned admissions (manaflow-ai#15117)
5bee212 Match the CMUX_NO_GIT_WATCH contract to bash without a PR poller (manaflow-ai#15099)

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