- From: Aldrik Dunbar <aldrik@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2012 18:45:26 +0200
- To: Scott González <scott.gonzalez@gmail.com>
- Cc: whatwg@whatwg.org
> Assistive technology can't magically detect that your image has low > contrast and provide a better image. I don't think that AT even comes > into play as high contrast mode is handled by the OS. High contrast > mode is not the same as choosing a monochrome display. On Windows, the > default high contrast display is mostly white on black, but there are > still colors, and text is larger. On OS X, high contrast mode is just > extremely contrasty with lots of detail getting washed out; you can > separately choose to use grayscale and/or invert colors. > > Authors may want to provide images with lots of detail, but fall back > to images with less detail and/or larger objects/text in the case of > high contrast mode. In that case it sounds like we need somthing like the -ms-high-contrast [1] media feature needs to become a standard. [1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ie/hh771830(v=vs.85).aspx
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