Re: Was someone writing / did someone write content about color picking being potentially inaccurate?

Suhweet. Thanks—that’s what I was thinking of.

From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
Date: Friday, June 13, 2025 at 15:05
To: public-wcag2-issues@w3.org <public-wcag2-issues@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Was someone writing / did someone write content about color picking being potentially inaccurate?
I believe you're thinking of this https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/3761

which aims to be a follow-up to https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3560
and https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3671 which included bits about
anti-aliasing.

P

On 13/06/2025 22:40, Storr, Francis wrote:
> Hi, all
>
> I think I remember a year or so ago, someone (Patrick? Dan?) talking
> about writing some content along the lines of “color picking is the
> least accurate way of checking contrast because of {reasons}”.
>
> If I’m not misremembering that, did it ever get published, and if it
> did, where did it end up?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Francis
>

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