Re[4]: SC for 'real' text over a busy background image

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From: "Jonathan Avila" <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com>
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>>  Interesting, I'd say that's a maybe. As looking at 1.4.3, I see F83 
>>does call out that the the background image should provide sufficient 
>>colour contrast, a better fit. It still doesn't explicitly address the 
>>issue of legibility, that may not be due to contrast issues.
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>SC 1.4.3 is what we have at the A/AA level to address this.  Perhaps 
>readability is a topic for the next WCAG.  Also of note, there has been 
>some discussion in the LVTF about the difference between legibility and 
>readability, etc.
Cool - thanks for the heads up Jon. I think readability/legibility 
should be a topic for WCAG.next. Glad to hear the LVTF are looking at 
this.

Josh

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>Jonathan
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: josh@interaccess.ie [mailto:josh@interaccess.ie]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 7:49 AM
>To: Patrick H. Lauke; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
>Subject: Re[2]: SC for 'real' text over a busy background image
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>Interesting, I'd say that's a maybe. As looking at 1.4.3, I see F83 
>does call out that the the background image should provide sufficient 
>colour contrast, a better fit. It still doesn't explicitly address the 
>issue of legibility, that may not be due to contrast issues.
>One of the LVTF, if they haven't started looking at this already.
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>Thanks
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>Josh
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>From: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
>To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
>Sent: 10/05/2016 12:36:22
>Subject: Re: SC for 'real' text over a busy background image
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>>On 10/05/2016 12:32, josh@interaccess.ie wrote:
>>>I'm working with a client and finding text (real text) that is
>>>displayed over a busy background image that obscures its legibility.
>>>Currently I don't see a clear SC for this kind of problem and it 
>>>seems
>>>to just sit somewhere under the principle that content must be
>>>perceivable. The closest that I see is 1.4.5.
>>>Am I missing something?
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>>1.4.3 ?
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>>-- Patrick H. Lauke
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