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Re: Disabled Controls and WCAG Contrast

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From: Donald Evans
Date: Nov 21, 2011 10:15AM

I did see that, but the grayed out content does indicate disabled to the
sighted user. So wasn't sure it was decoration?

On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Kirkpatrick < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> No - see 1.4.3:
>
> " Incidental: Text or images of text that are part of an inactive user
> interface component, that are pure decoration, that are not visible to
> anyone, or that are part of a picture that contains significant other
> visual content, have no contrast requirement."
>
> Thanks,
> AWK
>
> Andrew Kirkpatrick
> Group Product Manager, Accessibility
> Adobe Systems
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