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Re: Visual Question About Disabled Text and Contrast

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From: Maxability
Date: Jun 13, 2019 10:18PM

What is the significance of the text grayed out? In my experience I have
seen few interactive elements such as submit button grayed out until the
user fills in the mandatory fields. There are other instances too but
most of them are interactive elements.

Regards - Rakesh

On 6/14/2019 12:22 AM, John Foliot wrote:
> Jim wrote:
>
> "...some text on the web is "grayed out."..."
>
> What (kind of) text? And in what context?
>
> JF
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 12:47 PM Jim Homme < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Someone is telling me that some text on the web is "grayed out." The gray
>> color is outside the allowable contrast range. Should I recommend a darker
>> gray for this to pass?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
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>> >> >> >> >>
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