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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Feb 5, 2015 11:35AM

Jared

Exciting news.
Hope you will do tests with screen reader users to ensure that these
tools are accessible.
Lynn, FireEyes's color contrast checking is actually one of the best
ones for screen reader users, once set up. The set up takes a little
bit of work.
You can run a color contrast check specifically, and you will get
information that enables you to pinpoint the spots in the dom where
color contrast issues are identified.

No tool is perfect, and color contrast checking for a blind expert is
always a challenge, it has to be said, but this really gets me most of
the way there.
If you want help testing with, or setting up FireEyes, just contact me off-list.
Thanks
-B

On 2/5/15, Jared Smith < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Lynn -
>
> WAVE (http://wave.webaim.org/) does contrast checking online with the
> rendered DOM (as rendered at page load). A near-future update will
> allow full DOM manipulation (even after page load) and real-time
> evaluation of dynamic elements.
>
> We're also working on an update to the Firefox extension to provide
> this functionality, but there's a nasty Firefox bug
> (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792479, if you'd like to
> go vote for it) that is making the updates impossible.
>
> Jared
> > > >


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