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| wcag | readable | |
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| 8 | 1 | |
| 1,014 | 11 | |
| 2.7% | - | |
| 9.6 | 10.0 | |
| 6 days ago | almost 5 years ago | |
| HTML | JavaScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!
> This isn't subjective or aesthetics, it's an objective measurement.
I’m going to push back against this slightly (I’m not disagreeing that the HN contrast is bad, but I am challenging the WCAG ratios). It’s objective, but it’s not a good measurement. WCAG computes contrast in sRGB, which is not perceptually uniform. As such there are cases where WCAG will give better scores to worse contrast.
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/695
It’s the biggest thing I wish would be changed in WCAG.
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APCA (WCGA 3.0) does not allow for 14px font to be used as a regular base
The APCA color calculator is still in progress and WCAG 3.0 is still a working draft, so its guidelines are not in place. The purpose of the changes are so that color contrast will focus on perceived color instead of a more simple algorithm that can mess up in some cases: https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/695
- The pain of UX/UI and accessibility
- WCAG exceptions?
- Starting to design for better accessibility
- Contrast Ratio Math and Related Visual Issues
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Does anyone follow WCAG's typography guidelines to the letter?
This came up in my work recently. Here’s a possibly helpful thread if you’re looking at a mobile app: https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/1510
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The Database Inside Your Codebase
Just because you find it readable does not mean others can; also, color contrast is not the only thing that affects readability. In this case, the issue is font weight.
Here's some discussion on the issue: https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/665
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Low-contrast font color and unreadable texts? To hell with them!
For the past 20 years, I've been using the 'zap' and 'zap images' bookmarklets from this web site:
https://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets/zap.html
They don't work on every site, but they're a good start. 'Reader mode' bookmarklets like https://github.com/lordastley/readable can often be configured for simple white on black text too.
What are some alternatives?
jedi - Awesome autocompletion, static analysis and refactoring library for python
guide - Aiming to be a fully transparent company. All information about source{d} and what it's like to work here.
semgrep - Lightweight static analysis for many languages. Find bug variants with patterns that look like source code.
codeq - Creates Datomic dbs from git repos
Sourcetrail - Sourcetrail - free and open-source interactive source explorer