- From: Michal Suchanek <suchanek@dec59.ruk.cuni.cz>
- Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 17:22:58 +0100
- To: site-comments@w3.org
Dave Allen Barker Jr wrote: > > Well done! > > Only two weeks later, and a qick paruse has shown the issue I raised > fixed by the fine folks at the W3C. > > Ah, the power of the stylesheet... > > > My default foreground and background colors for web browsing happen to > > be unconventional (foreground: #cccccc, background: #000000). With this > > scheme, I found areas of the W3C's site serve me poorly, as they do not > > follow the W3C's own recommendations for accessibility. The result is > > poor (light gray on white) (or with particular colors, zero) contrast > > between foreground and background colors. > > > > I refer to the lack of implementation of item 9.1 "Color Contrast" in > > the "CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0" ( > > http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/#style-color-contrast ), > > specifically the last line, "Ensure that foreground and background > > colors contrast well. If specifying a foreground color, always specify a > > background color as well (and vice versa)." > > > > While composing this email, I found examples of this nonconformance in: > > http://www.w3.org/ > > http://www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/ > > http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-CSS-TECHS/ > > > > Although the site (well, at least the homepage) bares only WAI-AA > > conformance, and the issue I'm raising is Priority 3, is there a good > > reason it hasn't been implemented? I applaud what the W3C is trying to > > do, and would like to see you take the lead in implementation! :^) Thanks for fixing the above mentioned pages at W3C. It made my navigation thtrough the site a bit easier. However, while browsing the W3C web site I found these pages do not set colors correctly (or set them in a way my browser does not understand): Background color: http://www.w3c.org/Mail/Lists.html http://www.w3.org/Mail/Request Text (and link) color: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ http://www.w3.org/Library/User/Guide/#Expat Link color: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/ (link color) http://validator.w3.org/ http://www.w3.org/Jigsaw/ http://www.w3.org/DOM/ http://www.w3.org/Style/LieBos2e/enter/ http://www.w3.org/Style/css2-updates/REC-CSS2-19980512-errata http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/ http://www.w3.org/Amaya/ http://www.w3.org/Graphics/PNG/ http://www.w3.org/Protocols/ Visited Link color (only) http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/ Most problematic pages have only link color unspecified but most keywords in recommendations link to their definition which makes the whole text very hard to read. Michal Suchanek hramrach_l@centrum.cz
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