WebAIM - Web Accessibility In Mind

E-mail List Archives

Re: Color contrast ratio for non-text content

for

From: Jared Smith
Date: Mar 5, 2013 1:19PM

On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Ramya Sethuraman wrote:
> Is there a minimum color contrast ratio for non-text content (icons, image
> buttons without text etc) that a user can click to take some action?

WCAG only specifies contrast requirements for text and images of text.
Clearly users need adequate contrast for non-text interactive items
also. I think the WCAG level AA ratios (4.5:1 or 3:1 if it's a heavy
set graphic) provide a pretty good threshold for such things.

Jared