Re: Graphics contrast - critical principle

Should we be requiring the image have contrast with the background on all
sides or just one or some sides.... ?

 I think this was a comment from Michael Gower at IBM (regarding
border/stroke) which I found worth exploring ...

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On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
wrote:

> Hi Gregg,
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> > The Unit of testing for WCAG is the page. If you try to use something
> smaller it will fundamentally change everything.
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> Sorry, I didn’t realise that was a trigger phrase!
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> I meant in the same sense as you test text contrast. There the thing you
> are testing is the text on a background.
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> Here you are identifying a graphic, or element within a graphic against
> its background and/or adjacent graphics.
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> I hadn’t used the term in the SC or description, just in an email!
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> Cheers,
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> -Alastair
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