a11yproject.com VS Compass

> The colour contrast of the title section fails all tests.

It doesn't. The background color is --color-blue: #3b4bbf and the SVG's fill color is --color-blue-tint: #d4d8f2, a 5.1:1 contrast ratio.

Having the top-level page titles replicated as such giant SVGs is probably overdoing it but the user also has the page title in the browser tab and the word "Checklist" underlined in the main navigation to locate themselves (the actual h1 heading for the page is visually hidden contains "Checklist."

I didn't find a viewport size/shape that had the overlapping you're describing, maybe their design has a problem they didn't find and you could report it to them [0].

> I also thought uppercase text-transform was best avoided

Do you mean on "Check your WCAG compliance?" Making all the text on a page or full sentences all uppercase can make it hard to read, I don't think you have to pretend `text-transform: uppercase` doesn't exist. It's definitely better to use the property to make text uppercase as a design choice vs. actually writing the text using all capital letters, at least some of the time browsers and assistive technologies can treat them differently.

I think the A11y Project in particular tries to reach designers and developers who often think "accessibility" means making sites plain, boring, and/or ugly. Therefore, they've adopted a design that is more capital "D" Designed on their top-level pages; that may mean not making everything maximally accessible 100% of the time. Additionally, people will always disagree about design choices.

[0] https://github.com/a11yproject/a11yproject.com/

a11yproject/a11yproject.com - Making #A11Y tips and tricks easier to digest and leveraging the community into the cloud.

pretty much gone, the beta site seems still to be alive http://beta.compass-style.org/reference/compass/css3/ and the github repo is still about https://github.com/Compass/compass/

SASS is a CSS preprocessor that is designed to be used as a standalone preprocessor, or as part of a framework called Compass. SASS for CSS is very similar to CSS, for creating CSS files that are more easily readable and maintainable than traditional CSS files. In the next chapper, we will learn how to use SASS to create a simple CSS file.

Soon after, Chris Epstein, the creator of Compass and co-creator of Sass, forked Brandon’s repository and asked for some help with the design. Being a big fan of Chris’s, Brandon jumped on the opportunity straight away. He pulled out the content, made the theme more generic, and named his creation Octopress.

I use a CLI tool to compile it as changes are made. I use http://compass-style.org/

Compass/compass - Compass is a Stylesheet Authoring Environment that makes your website design simpler to implement and easier to maintain.