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Re:Surprisingly Slow by amarshall on Thursday April 08, 2021 @02:44AM (#26735813)
Huh? The foreground is #404040 and background is #F9F9F9. That’s 9.84:1 which is high enough for WCAG AAA. The background image is speckled, but even the lowest-brightness pixel is #E8F7FA which is 4.72:1, which is not AAA, but is AA.
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Re:Surprisingly Slow by three14 on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:31AM (#26736410)
I didn't notice the contrast problem until seeing the GP comment, but I suspect that speckled backgrounds are worse than a solid #E8F7FA because they mess with people's ability to do edge detection when trying to see the shapes of the letters in the text.
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Re:Surprisingly Slow by klapatsibalo on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:49AM (#26736142)
What are these ratios and the letter sequences?
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Re:Surprisingly Slow by lifthrasiir on Thursday April 08, 2021 @03:55AM (#26736184)
Ratios are contrast ratios [1] while letter sequences are WCAG 2.0 conformance levels (AAA is the highest).

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#contrast-ratiodef

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