RE: Increasing contrast by text shadow

If the black shadow is around all of the portions of text which there is not sufficient contrast -- then yes in my personal opinion it could be used to meet 1.4.3 -- it only has to be 1 px.  It is my personalize experience beyond conformance that adding a black outline around white text that is small or narrow can actually make reading the text more difficult though for users with low vision.

Jonathan

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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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