RE: Disabled form fields

By the letter of the law, it appears to apply only to active fields, however, I require the developers to use a color palette that accommodates high enough contrast for disabled fields as well.  Not always something you can force, but I have the luxury of sitting in on the branding team as well as testing for compliance.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Pachebat <rpachebat@gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 9:08 AM
To: 'Pyatt, Elizabeth J' <ejp10@psu.edu>; 'Harry Loots' <harry.loots@ieee.org>
Cc: 'w3c-wai-ig' <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Subject: RE: Disabled form fields

A sentence in https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#contrast-minimum, specifically "Text or images of text that are part of an inactive user interface component", suggests to me that disabled components would not be subject to minimum contrast levels currently. How do others read that?

Roger

-----Original Message-----
From: Pyatt, Elizabeth J <ejp10@psu.edu> 
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2018 8:54 AM
To: Harry Loots <harry.loots@ieee.org>
Cc: w3c-wai-ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Disabled form fields

I’m not a policy expert, but I would make that recommendation also. There are many situations where a person may need information in a non-editable field (e.g. to confirm an auto-populated field or see content already entered into a form on a previous page).

Elizabeth

> On Dec 14, 2018, at 5:19 AM, Harry Loots <harry.loots@ieee.org> wrote:
> 
> Dear all
> 
> My understanding of SC 1.4.3 (Contrast) is that disabled form fields should also be subject to minimum contrast levels, since these fields may provide pertinent information to the user. 
> 
> Example from Google Material Design assets:
> <image.png>
> 
> What is the view of this group?
> 
> Kindest regards
> Harry
> 

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