Non-text contrast research

Hi everyone,

The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group had a really interesting presentation from & discussion with some of the accessibility folks at Google.

The area of research was to do with non-text contrast, and involved recruiting people with low-vision (assistive technology users) to test certain button styles available in the Material design system.

The slides from the presentation area available here:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1CFNxozlyO1lmiyRVCFuhQ_0t2c5QTLskY03CCeTpUuA/edit#slide=id.g59fb189588_0_56


And there is a recording which I’d recommend for the audio, as the slides are talked-through and generally described there:
https://mit.webex.com/mit/lsr.php?RCID=42dc7191ccb949e681ad88d6de4f1622


Practical (and public) research directly into these types of issues is rare, so I’d like to say a big thank-you to the team at Google for sharing this.

There are some recommendations that I’m sure we can act on, I’ll comment on that separately, this email is to share the links and kick-off the discussion.

Happy GAAD,

-Alastair

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