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Re:Google Design by Jare on Thursday May 28, 2015 @04:50PM (#9621091)
That site is very clean, readable, understandable and (it seems) perfectly usable.
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Re:Google Design by fsck--off on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:15PM (#9621234)
The contrast of the blue text(62a9e3) in the dropdown menu against the pure white background fails all WCAG guidelines. So it is not perfectly usable.
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Re:Google Design by DanBC on Thursday May 28, 2015 @05:40PM (#9621357)
Do you have a link to that guideline? I know there are a bunch about allowing users to override whatever the webdesigner specifies, and about having sensible contrast.
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Re:Google Design by jfuhrman on Thursday May 28, 2015 @06:22PM (#9621560)
WCAG 2.0 level AA requires a contrast ratio of 4.5:1 for normal text (14 point and bold or larger) and 3:1 for large text (18 point or larger). Level AAA requires a contrast ratio of 7:1 for normal text and 4.5:1 for large text.

http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/

http://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/

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Re:Google Design by joezydeco on Thursday May 28, 2015 @10:24PM (#9622367)
It's better than the current setup. But there are still some oddball things in there.

For example: why is that credit card ad hanging off the center tile like that? Why isn't it shaped like the other tiles?

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