It would be helpful to change the secondary background color as part of creating a custom theme. The current color does not match brand guidelines which are a key reason we are using a custom theme.
Yes! We need more options in theme colors and the secondary is very important. When I add our background brand color to the background (#082131) the secondary color has very little contrast.
This feature could help us with WCAG 2.0+ compliance. The current contrast between the embedded card text and background does not pass an accessibility scan.
Not being able to change the secondary background color has left me limited in applying my organizations branding while both adhering to ADA color standards and making the final theme easy on the eyes.
I would like to make the secondary color in my theme a darker blue that contrasts against a white background which would match my org design guidelines. But since I cannot do this, I am left either making the main background color dark blue (and the text white, it meets ADA color contrast) which while good for a landing page I found it starts giving me a headache for detail-rich pages with more text, or making white the background color and letting its auto-secondary background color remove any brand coherence with my orgs non-GIS enabled websites.
With custom themes being an optional way to take designs into the users hands, it makes the most sense to enable changing the secondary background color independent of the main background color since it is not something someone starting out making a basic storymap would run into on accident.
As we work to meet new ADA standards, we will be updating a lot of our public-facing products. I want to be able to make themes and other content that can adhere to this within the ESRI ecosystem, especially a product like storymaps that is a very easy to use and maintain "out-of-the-box" product.
Thank you for considering Ariels idea, I hope more work is done to add this to a future update.
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