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Re: Color Contrast Testing Visual Question

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From: L Snider
Date: Aug 23, 2019 9:43AM

One more thing to mention, is that not every single person can access
the contrast, even if it passes...It is not black and white (irony
intended).

Cheers

Lisa

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 12:39 PM Maxability < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Hey Jim,
>
> Color contrast is purely luminosity ratio between two color codes. These
> color codes come from the CSS developers / designers define. Ideally the
> test is performed on standard settings.
>
> I have not tested or guided to test color contrast on mobile but we used
> to take the screenshot of the mobile screen and open it on desktop for
> color contrast, still the contrast ratios used to be accurate.
>
> Thanks & Regards
>
> Rakesh
>
> On 8/23/2019 9:00 PM, Steve Green wrote:
> > The tester's comments do not appear to make sense. Apart from monochrome monitors, it is almost impossible to buy a monitor that doesn't support 24-bit colour, so the displayed colours will always correspond accurately to the hex codes that have been specified.
> >
> > It is possible that they are referring to the screen resolution rather than the colour depth, in which case they may have just written up the issue badly. Perhaps there are different colour combinations at different screen widths, depending on how the responsive design has been implemented.
> >
> > Steve Green
> > Managing Director
> > Test Partners Ltd
> >
> >
> >