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Re: Color contrast in links -- is it important?

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From: Cheryl D Wise
Date: Apr 20, 2007 11:00AM

It is also users on portable machines with power saving settings that have
the screen at less than 100% brightness.

Some that are okay but not good contrast are not acceptable at 80%
brightness a very common power saver setting.

Cheryl D Wise
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http://by-expression.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Teare

What lots of folk forget/don't know/wrongly assume to be unimportant is that
some users need low contrast. Many dyslexic users, those with Irlen's,
scoptic sensitivity, visual stress. And we (I'm one) are covered by the
DDA.

So there is no simple solution, and current regs do not reflect this :(