- From: Kynn Bartlett <kynn-edapta@idyllmtn.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 14:17:09 -0800
- To: "Sean B. Palmer" <sean@mysterylights.com>
- Cc: "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
At 09:51 AM 12/30/2000 , Sean B. Palmer wrote: >(Hakon:) >Use numbers, not names, for colors >Color names also vary from one platform to another. CSS supports 16 color >names: aqua, black, blue, fuchsia, gray, green, lime, maroon, navy, olive, >purple, red, silver, teal, yellow, white. Some browsers have chosen to >support additional color names, but there is no definite list. I suggest instead that we update the requirement (when it becomes part of a WCAG 2.0 CSS techniques document) to state "use the 16 named colors defined by CSS level 1, or use RGB colors" instead of just using RGB colors. I think those 16 should be considered a reasonably safe list and I don't think that access problems will result (which can't be eliminated by turning off CSS!) if those are used. I find a prohibition against using 'color: black' or 'background: white' to be absurd. --Kynn -- Kynn Bartlett <kynn@idyllmtn.com> http://kynn.com/ Sr. Engineering Project Leader, Reef-Edapta http://www.reef.com/ Chief Technologist, Idyll Mountain Internet http://www.idyllmtn.com/ Contributor, Special Edition Using XHTML http://kynn.com/+seuxhtml Unofficial Section 508 Checklist http://kynn.com/+section508
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