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Re: Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?

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From: Jonathan Metz
Date: Apr 19, 2013 1:26PM

Another option is to use color oracle (http://www.colororacle.org) to simulate what it's like to have . It's a free simulator for linux, mac and windows.


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Date: Thursday, April 18, 2013 4:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Global Accessibliity Awareness Day - small things regular coders or webpage dsigners could do?

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Birkir R. Gunnarsson <
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Another, I am wondering if it is easy and simple to turn color
contrast on screens down so low as to make the user color blind, or if
there is a plug-in that will provide these effects.


In OS X, this is controlled via System Preferences -> Universal Access ->
Seeing. In the Display section, there is a checkbox for "use grayscale"
which will eliminate all colors. You can also control contract and invert
colors.

In Windows, this is controlled via Control Panel -> Accessibility Options
-> Display. There is a checkbox for "Use High Contrast" there are also
settings to control how high contrast mode works.