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From: _mallory
Date: Aug 11, 2016 1:41PM

For foreground text colour + possible background image, a tool that
takes a screenshot of the page and runs a check would be a step in
the right direction.
U of N Carolina has one that does the first part of this (although it
is much too slow, at least when I use it, to test pages with any
speed). However after it checks contrast, it presents an image of the
page with new pixels over the original to highlight failure areas,
meaning it's meant for sighties to use. However it ought to be possible
to do something else with the information it gets and pipe it into
another type of output?

A second problem with background images is when the sites are responsive,
especially if they are brokenly responsive-- where a background image may
move in relation to the text (or other way around), meaning at one
screensize things pass but on another contrast is lost on some text.
A good tool for all would need to check many resolutions automatically.

cheers,
_mallory

On Tue, Aug 09, 2016 at 07:41:22PM +0000, Jim Homme wrote:
> Hi Lucy,
> I just remembered that I didn't join because I couldn't figure out how to get this address to work on Google Groups.
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> Thanks.
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> Jim
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