Re: Increasing contrast by text shadow

• From: Nigel Megitt <nigel.megitt@bbc.co.uk>
• Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 17:29:42 +0000
• To: Marc Haunschild <haunschild@mhis.onmicrosoft.de>, "w3c-wai-ig@w3.org" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <1EEF5256-4AD7-4894-81B3-21BB6A3C6F58@bbc.co.uk>

In general our experience has been that adding text shadow is not helpful in this scenario, and can cause more visual "noise" as well as apparently increasing contrast. That's not a comment about meeting the AA success criterion per se, more that you could do this but users have told us they don't like it, particularly if the text background is video.

Kind regards,

Nigel


On 12/11/2019, 17:26, "Marc Haunschild" <haunschild@mhis.onmicrosoft.de> wrote:

    Hi everybody,
    
    Short question: if the Contrast of text on a picture is too low - is a black text-shadow for white text on a picture a way to meet the Success Criterion 1.4.3 Contrast (Minimum) (Level AA)?
    
    Greetings,
    
    Marc
    

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