Bug 243365 - Scrollbar on WebKit blog is very hard to see
Summary: Scrollbar on WebKit blog is very hard to see
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: WebKit Website (show other bugs)
Version: Safari 15
Hardware: Unspecified Unspecified
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL: https://webkit.org/blog/12967/underst...
Keywords: InRadar
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2022-07-30 00:21 PDT by Robert Knight
Modified: 2022-08-16 12:00 PDT (History)
6 users (show)

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Screenshot of WebKit blog and scrollbar thumb (843.89 KB, image/png)
2022-07-30 00:21 PDT, Robert Knight 		no flags Details
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Description Robert Knight 2022-07-30 00:21:31 PDT 
Created attachment 461302 [details]
Screenshot of WebKit blog and scrollbar thumb

The WebKit blog has a customized scrollbar thumb which has the same (or nearly the same) background color as the blog itself, and only a thin border. This makes it very hard to see the thumb's position when scrolling through long articles. See attached screenshot from Safari 15.4 (the thumb is about one inch down from the tab bar on the right side).

My suggested solution is to use the default scrollbar style, which should be accessible in all user agents.
Comment 1 Radar WebKit Bug Importer 2022-08-06 00:22:15 PDT 
<rdar://problem/98231389>
Comment 2 Simon Fraser (smfr) 2022-08-16 12:00:01 PDT 
This is because the page has a dark background color (so we choose a light scrollbar) but most of the page is taken up with elements with a white background.