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Re: The WAVE reports "1x very low contrast"

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From: Laura Carlson
Date: Jul 3, 2019 10:26AM

Hi Patrick, Joseph, Jared, and all,

Thanks everyone!

Laura

On 7/3/19, Jared Smith wrote:

> Yep, it's a rather obscure false positive on the
> <title> within the SVG. Chrome (at least) has
> recently changed the way that these elements are
> styled, even though they are not visually
> rendered, thus they are now within the scope
> of WAVE's contrast checking. We've had a fix for
> this in place internally for a while (including
> our logic when the WebAIM Million analysis was
> conducted), but I just pushed this fix into
> production. You may need to refresh, but this
> will no longer be flagged as a contrast error.

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Laura L. Carlson
Information Technology Systems and Services
University of Minnesota Duluth
Duluth, MN U.S.A. 55812-3009