Discussion Group: A fix for low Text Contrast on web pages? #26
Description
Discussion group about a Text Contrast tool
If you are straining to read small size text on a web page, or find the text size too small, you can increase the font size beyond 100% (up to 9 levels using Chrome: 110, 125, 150, 175, 200, 250, 300, 400, 500).
To date, there is no such 'tool' for changing the text contrast as is acknowledged by W3.org:
No resources available for this technique.
As I understand the technology, this is a server-side design issue whereby companies and designers produce styles that do not pass the industry minimum requirements while claiming otherwise: see Kevin Marks' Wired Backchannel article for more details.
Therefore, the initial question to answer for this group is whether there is a way around this dim state of affairs. I suggest that upon failure (if we reach that state), we would create a BadContrast button (akin to the 'Report spam' button in Gmail) that would send the page address/domain to a public, 'bad contrast' opprobrium repo ;)
Group leader/s
???
Who we're looking for
Anyone interested & with some expertise: Web designers, front-end developers, design honesty advocates...
Tools
Whatever is needed to design/break web pages...
Relevant Links
W3: Contrast (Enhanced): Understanding SC 1.4.6
Where we meet
One of the tables?