Re: Luminosity Brightness of Enabled/Disabled Form Controls using default browser styling

Jim,

Great research data!  Thanks for doing this :)
G

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On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu> wrote:

> Standard HTML form controls. No styling -- default browser styling. Where
> possible the darkest color was used for contrast determination. All borders
> were 1 px, used 4.5:1 luminosity ratio as passing per WCAG 1.4.3. Used the
> latest version of each browser. No access to Edge.
>
> Used Color Contrast Analyser (https://www.paciellogroup.com/resources/
> contrastanalyser/) on Windows and Macintosh.
>
> Results:
>
> Only IE10 PASSED for borders on ENABLED form control - FF, CHROME, SAFARI
> FAILED.
>
> NO browser passed for disabled elements.
> http://w3c.github.io/low-vision-SC/luminosity-form-controls.html
>
> ​http://w3c.github.io/low-vision-SC/luminosity-form-controls.html
>
> related to: https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vision-a11y-tf/wiki/Contrast_(
> Minimum)​
>
> --
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