Re: Colour Luminosity/Contrast for form inputs/controls/components

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On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 9:24 AM, Chakravarthula, Srinivasu <
srchakravarthula@informatica.com> wrote:

> Absolutely I agree too. Double line with two different colours would be
> awesome.
>
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> Srinivasu Chakravarthula | Informatica | @CSrinivasu
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> On 07-Nov-2016, at 19:32, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> Yes I agree we need add a good focus indicator requirement into 1.4.3, and
> as a core technique, I really like John's idea of the double line with two
> different colours (light and dark) so that it will have sufficient contrast
> over any background.
>
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> On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
>> On 05/11/2016 14:28, Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:
>>
>>> And talking about contrast for things other than text there are a couple
>>> things to keep in mind.
>>>
>>> 1) the amount of contrast needed to see controls and other objects is
>>> much less than the contrast needed to make out fine details on 10
>>> strokes of letters. So the contrast requirements should not be anywhere
>>> near as high for other things as it does for the strokes of letters.
>>>
>>
>> Unless the controls/objects rely on the user being able to recognise fine
>> details too. Think for instance icons using only thin outline strokes
>> (rather than solid shapes/colours).
>>
>> The same way that some blocky fonts which DON'T have any fine details
>> would also not require as high a contrast ratio perhaps as
>> thin/elaborate/detailed fonts.
>>
>> It's a slippery slope to try and differentiate here, I'd say (as it
>> probably exposes shortcomings even in the current text - we've already seen
>> how the current definition of "large scale text" is arguably flawed, and
>> we've not even tackled what "bold" actually is, keeping in mind different
>> fonts can have wildly different visual appearances, x-heights, optical
>> weights, issues relating to kerning, details, etc).
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Remember that the contrast requirements for words were not set to make
>>> it possible to see that there was a Word there but to be able to make
>>> out the individual small features in the letters so that you could tell
>>> one letter from another .
>>>
>>
>> Is this documented anywhere? On first reading, it seems strange that the
>> concern is to be able to see details, but that it's not really essential
>> that the text itself be legible (recognised as a word)?
>>
>> One area that I see you focusing on that I think is good to focus on is
>>> the focus indicator. It currently has a rather ineffectual definition of
>>> having to be "visible". This is rather meaningless because if it were
>>> invisible it wouldn't be a focus indicator. It needs to be highly
>>> visible.   This is one item where the only thing we could get consensus
>>> on was that it be visible. We could then build techniques off of that as
>>> to how visible it should be and how to make it visible or more visible.
>>> We were not able to get any consensus for a stricter definition of
>>> visibility for the focus indicator.
>>>
>>
>> Agreed. "visible" sets the bar too low. Section 508 1194.21 (c) goes a
>> tiny step further in requiring a "well-defined on-screen indication of the
>> current focus", but even there "well-defined" is, ironically, not well
>> defined as a term. It would be good to get some qualitative and
>> quantitative definition into the spec around this aspect.
>>
>> P
>>
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