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Re: Where does invisible link text fail WCAG2?

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From: chaals@yandex-team.ru
Date: Jul 20, 2015 5:06PM

- lynn.holdsworth@



20.07.2015, 18:28, "Lynn Holdsworth" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Thanks for those useful suggestions.
>
> I can't really fail it on contrast, because it's been resized to 1px
> to make it invisible so there's no contrast to test.

Zero contrast sounds like there is insufficient contrast to me…

The requirement is that users can determine that it is there. I don't think there is anything in WCAG that makes it clear, but "sufficient contrast to be perceivable" generally requires being a certain size as well as colour combination.

Has anyone here filed a bug on WCAG or its associated documents for this issue? I think that would be a useful thing to do - so if the answer is no, I'll do it.

> But yes, I should be able to fail it under keyboard operable.
>
> Cheers, Lynn
>

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