diff --git a/app/assets/stylesheets/hyrax/accessibility_tweaks.css b/app/assets/stylesheets/hyrax/accessibility_tweaks.css
index 64bf0f4c..26cde656 100644
--- a/app/assets/stylesheets/hyrax/accessibility_tweaks.css
+++ b/app/assets/stylesheets/hyrax/accessibility_tweaks.css
@@ -2,3 +2,8 @@
 table.related-files td.attribute-permission span.label {
         font-size:95%;
 }
+
+/* ESSI-1951: increase contrast of badges on users show page */ 
+.badge {
+    background-color: #4a3c31;
+}
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