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From: Sandy Feldman
Date: Mar 13, 2019 11:52AM

hey Kristina, and all of you -

Thanks for taking the time to help me thing this through!

The WebAIM example is an image, so cross-browser trouble doesn't come
into it. I have just put some glowing text with 2 different thicknesses
on an image. What do you think?

https://www.inclusivemedia.ca/clients/glow/

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Sandy
sandyfeldman.com

On 2019-03-13 1:29 p.m., England, Kristina wrote:
> I think, back to Patrick's point, the glow may need to be thicker. I'm having a hard time seeing the glow test on Safari, but the last "We have the same contrast ratio" shadow effect of the WebAIM example is quite easy to read on all three browsers (Firefox, Chrome, and Safari). Of course, as Patrick mentioned, it's hard to really confirm without a visually busy image (assuming this text is going over an image, you would want to come up with a few images where you could really test the thickness of the glow). I would ask the customer for a few sample images they might use or pull a few off the web that you think may be good gut checks of the glow. A manual test is always best.
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