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From: Angela French
Date: Apr 4, 2012 10:11AM


I am always flabbergasted when I see standard color blue links on black backgrounds - which I occasionally do even on newer sites.
Angela French


>I'm fully sighted and can barely read the small body text in light green.
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>http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20120403_2451.php
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>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
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