- From: Alan J. Flavell <flavell@a5.ph.gla.ac.uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 15:19:53 +0100 (BST)
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>
- cc: WAI Guidelines List <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Al Gilman wrote: > If both foreground and background colors are set any time either one is > set, you are guaranteed that the contrast will be the contrast between the > pair desired by _someone_, not the random contrast between one color set by > someone and another color set by someone else. Absolutely. > Designers would mostly cringe at the thought of colors they picked being > randomly displayed in contrast against some other color picked artistically > but totally independently by somebody _else_. So you wouldn't have trouble > selling this rule as a good design rule. That seems to me a very effective way of expressing it! > Aha! I guess that I have mostly thought of the WCAG as providing rules for > the author. Indeed, but some authors (of stylesheets) could specialise in supplying user stylesheets that were optimised for a particular class of user (e.g to impose high visual contrast etc.). Whichever side you look at it from, this advice seems to be relevant to authoring. best regards
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