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From: Angela French
Date: Apr 17, 2015 10:34AM

We are trying to make our new design colors have sufficient contrast to pass WCAG 2.0 Level AA. I am looking for some guidance on what "normal" and "large" text equates to.
In our navigation menus, our font family is: Century Gothic (sans-serif). The font-size is: 1.7em. The background colors are: # f15c16 (orange), #6c97b0 (mid blue), and #748a38 (green). The font color is white bold.

The achecker keeps failing us. I think it is evaluating for Level AAA, instead of level AA, even though I have that level checked.

Thank you for any advice/opinions.



Angela French
Internet Specialist
State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
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