- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2017 16:38:02 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 28/09/2017 16:17, Subramanian, Poornima (PCL) wrote: > Great, here's my question - > In our application, there are brochure images which are actually the > "photography of cover page" in JPEG format. Though they are photography > images, it has large amount of text in it which does not meet minimum > color contrast ratio. > Attached image is a sample brochure. > I find the below NOTE for the WCAG Reference: 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum): > The visual presentation of text and images of text has a contrast ratio > of at least 4.5:1 > “Note: Images of text do not scale as well as text because they tend to > pixelate. It is also harder to change foreground and background contrast > and color combinations for images of text, which is necessary for some > users. Therefore, we suggest using text wherever possible, and when not, > consider supplying an image of higher resolution.” > Can you please look and advise if the "color contrast” on this image is > required to make this image compliant? Or increasing the resolution of > image alone will be sufficient? > Your suggestions, please? I'm assuming here that the title of the brochures is also presented somewhere nearby as real HTML text. If so, arguably those images serve more of a decorative purpose (to give users a flavour/idea of what the brochure looks like), rather than acting to convey text for the user to read. As such, I personally would deem these acceptable as they are. P -- Patrick H. Lauke www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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