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From: Judith.A.Blankman
Date: Aug 27, 2015 10:41AM

I use 4 checker tools (WAVE for Firefox & Chrome, Paciello desktop
checker, and the WebAIM web page) in different ways. I also make sure
designers have these tools and are checking their work.

I couldn¹t test your page, was blocked from our proxy server, so I can¹t
identify what might be happening in your situation.

Not sure how you are using the Chrome WAVE plugin, which I LOVE BTW, so
here¹s what I do. Select ³Contrast² from the choices at the top of the
sidebar to reveal the Details interface. Click on the icons that display
to locate errors. I am not sure why all of the icons don¹t display on the
page being tested (layers or animation perhaps?) but many of them do.
Guessing it¹s reading the CSS perhaps?

In general I trust my eye and then test using Paciello¹s dropper tool most
of the time. Or to be 100% sure, if I don¹t have a palette or a designer
to ask, I grab the colors from the CSS (if they are presented as hex
values and not percentages) using a code inspector and then plug them into
the WebAIM Color Contrast Checker.

Hope this helps.

Best,

Judith Blankman


Accessibility Strategist

Customer Experience (CX)

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On 8/27/15, 1:41 AM, "WebAIM-Forum on behalf of Schalk Neethling"
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wrote:

>Another invaluable tool for this is the Paciello Groups' color contrast
>checker ~ https://github.com/ThePacielloGroup/CCA
>
>On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Angela French < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Jared, it was suggested to me that I try the contrast checker add-on for
>> Firefox. I did so and I got some valuable insight there because it
>>showed
>> whether the items were failing on small or large text. Mine are
>>failing on
>> small text which tells me it's the media queries for small devices.
>>
>> Angela French
>>
>>