Re: Most common new WCAG 2.1 issues found

+1, and I'll add that contrary to the perspective of some, native tab focus
on a customized backgrounds should be failing as well when the contrast is
insufficient.

http://john.foliot.ca/demos/focuscolor.html

JF

On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 7:37 AM, Denis Boudreau <denis.boudreau@deque.com>
wrote:

> While that may be true Patrick, based on my own experience assessing
> websites, I would have guess that insufficient non-text color contrast
> would be the most frequent kind of 2.1 issue as well. This stuff has been
> everywhere for as long as I can remember.
>
> /Denis
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> On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 08:29 Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
> wrote:
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>> I'd caution as well that there's likely still a high degree of
>> uncertainty around how to test, what actually counts as a pass/fail,
>> what something does/doesn't apply to. Something that will even out over
>> time, no doubt...but for many auditors, this is uncharted territory
>> until they get more familiar with spotting common patterns of failure etc.
>>
>> P
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>> On 20/08/2018 12:01, Alastair Campbell wrote:
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > A little aneq-data-point, I asked on Twitter what people were finding
>> > came up most in WCAG 2.1 audits from the new criteria:
>> >
>> > https://twitter.com/alastc/status/1030455692853952512
>> >
>> > Non-text contrast (on inputs / focus styles) came up the most for most
>> > people. On a per-instance basis that isn’t too surprising, search boxes
>> > are often on every page.
>> >
>> > I’m not sure there is anything to conclude from this, but if we start
>> > seeing people act on that more often, perhaps it is moving the needle.
>> >
>> > Kind regards,
>> >
>> > -Alastair
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