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Re: Visual Question About Disabled Text and Contrast

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From: Mallory
Date: Jun 14, 2019 6:34AM

I've seen active controls greyed out and they darken on :hover/mouseover.

I call them out as fails. But it seems to be a style trend in some places.

cheers,
_mallory

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, at 6:18 AM, Maxability wrote:
> 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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