It's still too bright. The text became readable, but the tabs, progress bar and the login fields are still hard to see.
Update: You might want to rethink your overall graphical design. A general rule of thumb states that things should first look good in black & white (no gray, no colors). You shouldn't rely on colors until you get it right without them. If you then add colors, you are quite flexible, and can thus create better looking results.
Also, you then won't require too many colors for your design to work, which is especially important in your case where you rely on too many different gray tones. That seems to be the deeper cause for your trouble. It's easy to pick two good gray tones that have a good contrast to each other (i.e. black, white, gray1, gray2). When you add a third gray tone it's quite hard to pick good ones. Adding a fourth gray tone and you are lost! Well, at least that's my experience, unless you have a very good monitor and are creating a print design rather than a web design.
Interesting idea! I'll definitely keep that in mind for future designs.
For now I have reduced the text color scheme to use only two shades of gray. I tried to pick two shades that have good contrast but with neither being unreadable on white.
> I have reduced the text color scheme to use only two shades of gray
Did you? I'm counting at least 4 gray colors, 3 of which are competing: The background, the text, the login field's text and the login field's background. Maybe there are even more different gray tones, I didn't check thoroughly.
>> I have reduced the text color scheme to use only two shades of gray
> Did you?
Yes I did. The "4 gray colors" you mention are not part of the text color scheme.
I'm sorry that you despise the design so much. I've tried to remedy the stylesheet in response to your suggestions, but if you're going to suggest I lied, then I don't know what else to do.
> The "4 gray colors" you mention are not part of the text color scheme.
Sorry, I overlooked the "text" part. That's why I was wondering.
I didn't expect that you would just fix a part of the design and ask for further advice, because, well, the further advice is obvious: Fix the rest of the color scheme, too. :-)
The text part was definitely improved, by the way. But in order to see whether the colors are good, we need to have a look at the fixed overall design. Judging such things from only a part is something that only very good artists are capable of, maybe not even those.
EDIT: We've improved the text color contrast! Apologies to everyone who had to tilt their monitors or squint. The page should be much clearer now.