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Re:Design tip: Never use black (2012) by Rumudiez on Monday October 21, 2013 @02:14AM (#6583664)
Although I agree that everyone needs to watch out for low contrast type scenarios, I don't exactly see how this article exemplifies one in any way. Can you point out anything in particular?
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Re:Design tip: Never use black (2012) by mike_esspe on Monday October 21, 2013 @04:44AM (#6584183)
It have a poor contrast for text.
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Re:Design tip: Never use black (2012) by deificx on Monday October 21, 2013 @10:31AM (#6585766)
No, it doesn't, the foreground color is #57534a and background is #ffffff which gives a ratio of 7.7:1

WCAG 2.0 requires a contrast of 7:1 to reach AAA levels. [1]

you can test it yourself with a bunch of tools but I couldn't find link to results on any of them [2][3][4].

[1] http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/quickref/#qr-visual-audio-contr...

[2] http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

[3] http://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html

[4] http://contrastchecker.com/

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Re:Design tip: Never use black (2012) by mike_esspe on Friday November 01, 2013 @06:21AM (#6652819)
My eyes prefer better contrast. I've read WCAG 2.0 and 7:1 is a minimum contrast, not optimum. The logic is that it's a minimum contrast for a user with 20/80 vision.
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