- From: Roberto Scano - IWA/HWG <rscano@iwa-italy.org>
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:22:42 +0200
- To: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org>, "'WAI-GL'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Cc: "i18n IG" <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>
----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Ishida" <ishida@w3.org> To: "'WAI-GL'" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org> Cc: "i18n IG" <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org> Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2004 12:14 PM Subject: Are transparent backgrounds a bad idea? WCAG Folks, The i18n WG would like to know whether we should be concerned about using graphics with transparent backgrounds. This arises from a comment on our Character Model document. The commenter is worried that someone applies a high contrast stylesheet (white text on black background) then dark images will no longer be visible. We would like to know your thoughts on the matter. Roberto Scano: This is the same problem that there is when a developer don't set foreground or background colors for the body element in CSS: the browser recognize the preferences in the user agent. If for eg. I set high contrast in Microsoft Windows (yellow text on black background) and I go to: http://news.google.com I cannot read the text of the news because the background color still be white with the text in yellow...
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