topic Experience Builder - search widget text - how to change font color to meet contrast requirements? in Accessibility Questions

Experience Builder - search widget text - how to change font color to meet contrast requirements?

AndreaB_ — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:35:15 GMT

Hi all,

In the search widget, the text, "Find address or place", default grey on white is not contrast accessible.

Is there a place to change this text color or text size or make bold? It doesn't seem to follow any of the changes I make in the style tab of the search widget.

And it isn't following the theme text colors. The grey text shown in the overlay button below is a darker grey.

Thank you,

Andrea

Re: Experience Builder - search widget text - how to change font color to meet contrast requirements?

Laura — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:24:36 GMT

I don't see anything to change this either. They are addressing these issues to support.. have you contacted them?

Re: Experience Builder - search widget text - how to change font color to meet contrast requirements?

AndreaB_ — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:31:03 GMT

I will put in a ticket today. Thanks for the response.

Re: Experience Builder - search widget text - how to change font color to meet contrast requirements?

AndreaB_ — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:56:24 GMT

I have started the Esri Case. The good news is the Calcite Theme does have a grey text color in the default search widget that meets contrast requirements. So I'm going to switch to the Calcite Theme and modify colors and fonts from there. I'll update when the Esri Case has moved forward.

Re: Experience Builder - search widget text - how to change font color to meet contrast requirements?

AndreaB_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:10:16 GMT

This has been logged as BUG-000184916. Status: In Review. I'm not sure if Esri will prioritize accessibility concerns or not. It used to be that the more people that attached cases to a BUG, the faster they would correct it. So if you have a free hour - start a Tech support chat and ask to be added to this BUG.