Re: High contrast modes

On 10/08/2022 09:38, Ms J wrote:
> My question is, what about the cases where the background-color property 
> has been used to convey information which pass 3:1 in the default view, 
> but in windows high contrast mode (HCM) for example, the info is lost 
> (background-colors all change to black)

Compatibility with HCM/forced colours is not part of WCAG per se - WHCM 
is a non-standardised adaptation/modification of content, and authors 
are nominally not on the hook for problems that arise when a user 
decides to use forced colours and overrides the author-defined 
styles/colours.

See some discussions here 
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+HCM

P
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Received on Wednesday, 10 August 2022 09:39:52 UTC