- From: Daniel Dardailler <danield@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 12:02:10 +0200
- To: "Philip 'Yes, that's my address' Newton" <nospam.newton@gmx.net>
- cc: wai-wcag-editor@w3.org
> May I suggest adding something along the lines of "Ensure that if you > specify any one of foreground, background, and link colours, you specify > them all."? Otherwise we might have the following scenario: > > Most graphical browsers have a white or light grey background by > default, on which black text shows up well. So page author A might > choose to specify that the body of his document be rendered in black. > However, user B might have set his browser to display white text on a > black background by default. Because A overrode the default with black > text, B will see black text on a black background. This wouldn't have > happened if A had specified both foreground and background colours. Thanks for the suggestion Philip. I think we're aware of this problem, and it was discussed in the group in the past; we'll raise it again, but my guess is that it's not an accessibility issue per se, it's just a plain bug (black on black: all regular graphical users are affected).
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