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Re: 1.4.1 use of color for state indicator

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Mar 9, 2020 2:54AM

On 09/03/2020 06:20, glen walker wrote:
> [image: image.png]
> (Image Description: Four buttons, labeled A, B, C, and D. Buttons A, B,
> and D have black text and a white background. Button C has white text and
> a black background.)
>
> If you have a set of buttons, such as in a toolbar, and one button is
> selected and the others are not, and that selection is indicated by a color
> difference, isn't that a 1.4.1 failure?


For what it's worth, in our evaluations we've treated a reversal in
foreground/background as a valid indicator, as it's a drastic change in
lightness (adapting the rationale of that particular note in F73). So
even the very first example would be a pass in my book.

P
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