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From: Bevi Chagnon
Date: Apr 4, 2012 8:08AM

For those on the list who must educate others about accessibility, here's a
website that shows how not to choose colors wisely.

I'm fully sighted and can barely read the small body text in light green.

http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20120403_2451.php

And to think: this commercial website is a news service to the U.S. Federal
government. I wonder if their webmasters have heard about Section 508 yet
<grin>.



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