From 1ba882cf8788e8fdba1295476f0a5a16143f353f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Fischer <david@readthedocs.org>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 15:30:52 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Accessibility improvements to the left nav

---
 docs/changelog.rst         | 8 ++++++++
 sass/_theme_layout.sass    | 5 ++++-
 sass/_theme_variables.sass | 4 ++--
 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 57af405b..c4b8e64f 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -3,6 +3,14 @@
 Changelog
 *********
 
+Master
+======
+
+Fixes
+-----
+
+* Color accessibility improvements on the left navigation
+
 v0.3.1
 ======
 
diff --git a/sass/_theme_layout.sass b/sass/_theme_layout.sass
index a4c86caa..2aa40b52 100644
--- a/sass/_theme_layout.sass
+++ b/sass/_theme_layout.sass
@@ -24,7 +24,9 @@
     padding: 0 $base-font-size
 
 .wy-menu-vertical
+  color: $menu-medium
   width: $nav-desktop-width
+
   header, p.caption
     height: $base-font-size * 2
     display: inline-block
@@ -35,7 +37,6 @@
     font-weight: bold
     text-transform: uppercase
     font-size: 80%
-    color: $menu-dark
     white-space: nowrap
 
   ul
@@ -97,6 +98,8 @@
     border-top: solid 1px darken($menu-vertical-background-color, 20%)
 
   // This is the on state for pages beyond second level
+  li.toctree-l2 a, li.toctree-l3 a, li.toctree-l4 a
+    color: $menu-link-color
   li.toctree-l1.current li.toctree-l2, li.toctree-l2.current li.toctree-l3
     > ul
       display: none
diff --git a/sass/_theme_variables.sass b/sass/_theme_variables.sass
index 79630b41..dd9e30ff 100644
--- a/sass/_theme_variables.sass
+++ b/sass/_theme_variables.sass
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ $menu-vertical-background-color:      $section-background-color
 // Menu text colors
 $menu-color:                          $gray
 $menu-dark:                           lighten($menu-color,10%) !default
-$menu-medium:                         lighten($menu-color,25%) !default
+$menu-medium:                         lighten($menu-color,30%) !default
 $menu-light:                          lighten($menu-color,45%) !default
 $menu-lighter:                        lighten($menu-color,60%) !default
 
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ $menu-lighter:                        lighten($menu-color,60%) !default
 $menu-link-color:                     $text-color
 $menu-link-dark:                      $text-dark
 $menu-link-medium:                    $text-medium
-$menu-link-light:                     $text-light
+$menu-link-light:                     $text-lighter
 $menu-link-active:                    $white
 
 // Navigation colors

From 0bd591e20c8070af0c0ff012f5a31fd76878b874 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Fischer <david@readthedocs.org>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2018 09:19:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Slightly darken the left nav captions

---
 sass/_theme_layout.sass    | 2 +-
 sass/_theme_variables.sass | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/sass/_theme_layout.sass b/sass/_theme_layout.sass
index 2aa40b52..2162143c 100644
--- a/sass/_theme_layout.sass
+++ b/sass/_theme_layout.sass
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
     padding: 0 $base-font-size
 
 .wy-menu-vertical
-  color: $menu-medium
   width: $nav-desktop-width
 
   header, p.caption
@@ -264,6 +263,7 @@
   overflow-x: hidden
   overflow-y: hidden
   min-height: 100%
+  color: $menu-medium
   background: $nav-background-color
   z-index: $z-index-popover
 
diff --git a/sass/_theme_variables.sass b/sass/_theme_variables.sass
index dd9e30ff..b05a6a5f 100644
--- a/sass/_theme_variables.sass
+++ b/sass/_theme_variables.sass
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ $menu-vertical-background-color:      $section-background-color
 // Menu text colors
 $menu-color:                          $gray
 $menu-dark:                           lighten($menu-color,10%) !default
-$menu-medium:                         lighten($menu-color,30%) !default
+$menu-medium:                         lighten($menu-color,27.5%) !default
 $menu-light:                          lighten($menu-color,45%) !default
 $menu-lighter:                        lighten($menu-color,60%) !default