I apologize if my comment came across as overly critical or unhelpful. All I meant by it is that to my eyes, the brightness of the orange with the white border around the text is a harsh combo. It would be more comfortable with a darker background that contasts more with the white.
See, you did more research than me, so maybe I’m totally wrong.
It’s a good job, I 100% support the graphic and idea behind it and I learned about a couple new services too. Don’t let any of us get you down. You’re DOING something and you should feel good about that.





Okay, looking at that accessibility tool with the hex you provided (nice on the anti-Meta rationale), I think what makes it difficult is that white border around the text. It’s adding a low contrast border to what would otherwise be high contrast black-on-orange.
https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/?fcolor=FFFFFF&%3Bbcolor=F9971E
See what I mean?