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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Jun 12, 2025 8:14AM

Thanks Jared! That outliner thing looked weird. It would cover the image and text with a semitransparent overlay, then place those white pixels. You ended up with a weird grey image with a scraggly white outline of text, but once you understood what it was doing it was handy as all get out.

Thank you,
Brian Lovely
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Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2025 10:04 AM
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Contrast of text on a multicolored background

You can use the eyedropper tool within the color picker in WAVE or in WebAIM’s contrast checker (https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/) to sample various foreground and background color from images or when various colors are used. Unfortunately Firefox does not provide the eyedropper in their color input.
Jared