Re: Contrast of focused item (options) in select element

This is a browser issue. Chrome has different select color than FF or IE.
Still not changeable though.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:16 AM, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com>
wrote:

> Jonathan,
>
> This is controlled by the OS theme on windows so I think we can state it
> is under user control (or at least the OS control!). On Windows 7 this was
> easy to change, but I see no way to change it under windows 8.1
>
> Regards,
> James
>
>
> On 10/20/2015 9:06 AM, Jonathan Avila wrote:
>
> The default browser contrast (IE, Firefox, Chrome under Windows) for the
> focused state of option items in a select element does not meet minimum
> contrast under SC 1.4.3. The focused colors don’t appear to be changing
> using pseudo classes :focus or :selection they remain white on blue
>
>
>
>
> What are peoples thoughts on contrast violations for platforms that can’t
> be changed by the author?  Is there a work around that someone has found
> for this?
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
>
>
>
> Jonathan
>
>
>
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