- From: Rijk van Geijtenbeek <rijk@iname.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 15:06:04 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
Hello Ian, On Wednesday, March 12, 2003 you wrote: .. > Are any of the colours used on this page hard to distinguish?: > http://www.hixie.ch/tests/key.html Yes, but in a non-fatal way (for me at least). 'yellow-on-maroon' looks more like 'yellow-on-black' to me, but is clearly a fail. And 'red-on-white' is clearly not green, so also easy to spot as a fail. But it is much easier to see the text is actually red when I make sure to use a 'fat' font, like Arial/Tahoma/Trebuchet shown at 14pt. > Note that as you observe, most of the tests check if you can see only > green, rather than if you can't see red. Which is good enough (for me). It would be interesting to see if others find it harder. Here are some examples of tests that don't follow the guideline above, and which I find hard to do: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS1/current/sec14.htm Have to look carefully to see the text is really red, not black. http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/CSS1/current/sec24.htm I remember I have edited the code to change maroon to lime to be sure Opera supported this... > See also: http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/Test/guidelines.html#color Greetings, Rijk mailto:rijk@iname.com Mot du Jour: A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
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