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Re: Example of poor website colors for accessibility

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Apr 4, 2012 8:20AM

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

A few thoughts:

There is nothing in Section 508 that requires adequate contrast or
that discourages the use of hard-to-read colors. It only requires that
"information conveyed with color is also available without color". The
text colors used on this site are Section 508 compliant.

Nextgov.com is, as you note, a corporate entity and is not
governmental, so Section 508 would not apply to them anyway.

This doesn't excuse their inaccessibility, but if one were to beat
them with a stick, the Section 508 stick is about the worst one to
use.

Jared