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Re: High-contrast icons

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 29, 2007 2:10PM

Janna Cameron wrote:
> I've noticed that the high-contrast version of many websites/web
> applications is text-only. Is there a reason, beyond "time and effort",
> why this is the case? Why don't high-contrast websites have
> high-contrast icons?

Partly because of that, and probably partly because there's still the
stigma of "accessible site = text only site" that lumps any disability
into one big group and serves them nothing but text...IMHO, of course.

P
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Patrick H. Lauke