Re: Color Contrast (was RE: Coming to a decision on 2.2 - which has long since been lost in this thread)

Actually, it is possible to fail 2.1.1 and pass 2.4.7.  Let’s say that you have a control on a page and the user can tab to it, and it shows the focus rectangle.  Maybe it is a custom checkbox and it can’t be toggled with the keyboard or it is a drop down that can’t be opened – if so then it would fail 2.1.1 but pass 2.4.7.

On this topic, if we call out focus contrast in the future, we should make sure that we think about the various forms of selection and highlighting also.  It is awful when a drop down / select control has a nice focus but then you can’t see the selected item well.  That part is more covered currently in that the items are usually text and the color contrast for text rules apply directly, but it is worth our keeping in mind as worth another look.

Thanks,
AWK

Andrew Kirkpatrick
Group Product Manager, Accessibility
Adobe

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From: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com<mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com>>
Date: Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 04:22
To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org<mailto:w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: Color Contrast (was RE: Coming to a decision on 2.2 - which has long since been lost in this thread)
Resent-From: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org<mailto:w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>>
Resent-Date: Thursday, February 25, 2016 at 04:23

I agree that this is correct:
IF SC2.1.1 = FAIL
     THEN SC 2.4.7 = Not Applicable

But in terms of reporting, if a client was going to fail 2.4.7 if they fixed 2.1.1, I would report that as well.

Otherwise they would complete their updates and still not have everything done. (I guess that might be an advantage if you make money from re-tests, but I would find that uncomfortable.)

I’m not sure that is something that WCAG should worry about, it is more about professional reporting.

-Alastair



From: John Foliot

Hi Gregg,

Yes in theory, but there are also times when reporting all SC failures (say, into a bug tracker) is also preferable (or at least desirable), so the answer isn’t always black or white there: it depends on how any one person is using the results of a given Success Criteria.

JF