Twitter thread on thin text

Interesting comments on a thread that started with a Chrome test for text-contrast:
https://twitter.com/kevinmarks/status/958320468322287617 

Kevin Marks made the point that WCAG adjusts for thick (bold) text, but not thin text, and included a link to some research about it:
https://t.co/BCsmGTCf6k (PDF, probably doesn't reflow very well :-/  )

This is a good illustration: https://kevinmarks.github.io/colourandcontrast.html 

So it occurs to me that might be a good SC for after 2.1 (I'd rather an update, but it would probably have to be a new requirement.)

That research was for general population rather than low-vision users, so we'd need to find (or conduct) some disability specific research. He suggested finding some participants from the comments here:
https://medium.com/backchannel/how-the-web-became-unreadable-a781ddc711b6 

Possibly not an ethical way to source participants, but I don't have the kit for this kind of research anyway!

-Alastair

Received on Tuesday, 30 January 2018 23:12:50 UTC