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Re: High-contrast icons

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From: Janna Cameron
Date: Jan 30, 2007 9:10AM


Just to be sure: Is there assistive technology that eliminates the need
to specially-design icons? (what contrast ratio would this technology
deliver?)

What size should high-contrast icons be? Would it be acceptable to make
the icons look in proportion with 40 or 60 px font?

Janna

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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