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From: Howard Kramer
Date: Oct 17, 2015 1:01PM

Hello All:

This may be a question best answered by Jared or Jonathan but I welcome any
other input.

I used the WAVE tool <http://wave.webaim.org/>; to check the Accessing
Higher Ground home page <http://accessinghigherground.org/>; and found 2 low
contrast flags under the "style" tab (or with styles active) but none under
the "contrast" tab. Does this mean that there's a setting in my css that
stipulates low contrast but it is not used on the page?

Also, I ran the Juicy Studios Contrast Analyzer and found 1 color contrast
issue (this also seems to be a case of a css color setting that does not
actually appear on the page) but a number of color difference issues. The
latter is not specified in WCAG 2.0 as far as I can tell. How concerned
should I be regarding color difference?

Thanks,
Howard



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