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Re: text contrast minimum for native widgets

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jul 18, 2020 2:44AM

On 18/07/2020 03:37, glen walker wrote:
> If you use a native <select>/<option> element and don't change the
> appearance, on chrome, safari, and firefox the dropdown list shows white
> text on a blue background for the element that is selected. The blue that
> is used on chrome and safari has a 3.2:1 ratio and the blue on firefox is
> just below 4.5:1.
>
> 1.4.11 Non-text contrast has an exception "where the appearance of the
> component is determined by the user agent and not modified by the author"
> but 1.4.3 does not have that exception. So if you're using a native
> element and the text contrast fails, you're responsible for changing the
> native color?

I would say the exemption is implicit, as the rendering of the whole
widget is down to the user agent, and it SHOULD provide accessible
defaults. For 1.4.11 it needed to be made explicit as things like focus
outline do interact directly/show up on top of author-controlled
colours, so it had to be clarified that at that point, it's not *just*
the user agent that's responsible.

I've been known to normatively let <select>'s pass 1.4.3 but to mention
the problem nonetheless as a best practice for authors to address.

P
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