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Re: question regarding WAVE, color contrast and color difference

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From: _mallory
Date: Oct 20, 2015 1:56AM

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:25:35AM -0700, James Nurthen wrote:
> Birkir,
> You can certainly do some guessing but there isn't a definitive way of
> coding such a check as far as I'm aware. I try to avoid guessing in tools
> as I find false negatives to be particularly worrying. In our internal tool
> I account for this kind of thing when using certain technology stacks, but
> I haven't attempted to write something that works with more publicly
> available technology stacks.

What would be cool then is if you're testing a page of your own or your
own organisation or you know they're using for example Bootstrap or some
front-end framework where we already know the classname used for the visually
hidden stuff, where we could tell the tool "for this page, things with this/
these classes are meant to be hidden." This way the tool is not guessing, the
tester has to take responsibility, but now they can better test their own
stuff.

Maybe this is actually already possible in the tool, I need to start using
it soon.

_mallory