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Re: question regarding WAVE, color contrast and color difference

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From: James Nurthen
Date: Oct 17, 2015 6:22PM

There is only 1 real contrast error on that page - the placeholder text in
the search box does not meet the 4.5:1 ratio. Many contrast checkers miss
this one.

The other error that tools will find is the "Our Sponsors" text which is
provided as a header for screen reader users and is not shown visually on
the page. Many tools will still report this text as it is very difficult to
determine automatically that it is not actually visible.

Regards,
James

On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Howard Kramer < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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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