RE: High Contrast support with Browsers.

Noting that on certain operating systems (iOS, Android, macOS, others?), high contrast is a low-level setting that affects ALL output at the operating system level (what’s sent to the video card/monitor), while on others (Windows, others?), it’s a setting that software needs to be specifically coded to read and then support/implement.

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From: Jim Allan
Sent: 14 May 2018 16:34
To: seanmmur@cisco.com
Cc: WAI-IG
Subject: Re: High Contrast support with Browsers.

​Chrome does not respect High Contrast Mode (HCM​) in the OS. You must use an extension
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/high-contrast/djcfdncoelnlbldjfhinnjlhdjlikmph?hl=en
respect OS HCM 
IE , EDGE - https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13862/windows-use-high-contrast-mode 
FireFox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/accessibility-features-firefox-make-firefox-and-we#w_using-a-high-contrast-theme
Safari https://www.apple.com/accessibility/mac/vision/ 




On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 9:23 PM Sean Murphy (seanmmur) <seanmmur@cisco.com> wrote:
All,
 
General query in relation to high contrast with browsers. Should the browser honor the OS high contrast settings or should the CSS override the OS high contrast? My view is the browser should honor the OS high contrast settings. Not sure if this is the case now.
 
 
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