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Re: Color Contrast

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From: Jared Smith
Date: May 26, 2012 8:46AM

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 5:59 PM, David Ashleydale wrote:
> She said,
> "Well, can't the user just zoom in or increase the text size using the
> browser functionality to get it up to 18 points or more?"

By that same logic, the user could just override page colors to fix
the contrast issue, or get a friend to read it for them. If we took
this approach to accessibility we wouldn't need to bother at all.

Jared