[Bug 273885] Accessibility: review use of italicised green monospace in manual pages

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=273885

            Bug ID: 273885
           Summary: Accessibility: review use of italicised green
                    monospace in manual pages
           Product: Documentation
           Version: Latest
          Hardware: Any
                OS: Any
            Status: New
          Keywords: accessibility
          Severity: Affects Many People
          Priority: ---
         Component: Manual Pages
          Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org
          Reporter: grahamperrin@gmail.com
                CC: doc@FreeBSD.org

Today, at first sight,
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=auto-update-system&sektion=1&manpath=freebsd-ports>
appeared wrong. 

First line (header of the manual content): the italicised green monospace
words, immediately adjacent to upright non-green numbers in parentheses. 

Comparing with a recent capture from
<https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/*>, I assume that
the change from upright black to italicised green, in headers and footers, is
fairly recent. 

8th August 2023:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20230808175410/http://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcp_bbr&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+14.0-CURRENT&arch=default&format=html>
– upright black.

manpath=freebsd-current for the same page, captured today:
<https://web.archive.org/web/20230917091918/https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tcp_bbr&sektion=4&manpath=freebsd-current>
– italicised green.

Generally
=========

Amongst the top five results for
<https://www.startpage.com/do/dsearch?query=accessibility+monospace+italic&cat=web>: 

Font - Low Vision Accessibility Task Force
<https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vision-a11y-tf/wiki/Font>

Quote: 

> italic text is often difficult to read with low vision, 

I find
<https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hier&sektion=7&manpath=FreeBSD+15.0-CURRENT#HISTORY>
particularly difficult, and so on.

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