Month: June 2021
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Fixing Your Color Contrast – Part 1
Now that we covered how you can determine whether your text meets the color contrast ratio requirements (see last post), how can you adjust your text and background colors to fix any situations where the contrast ratio is not adequate? There are several ways. Let us begin with the easiest. Black text on White background…
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Finding your Color Contrast
If you read my last post, you have an idea about why color contrast is important, especially for those with color blindness. But color contrast is not just for the color blind. I have seen some poor color choices on various public websites. I will not embarrass them by naming them here. However, I will…
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The Wonderful World of Color
Color! Imagine a world without color! It would be like living back in the world of the 1950s when everything was black and white. At least on TV. Today people take color for granted. Well, most people do. But our eyes are unique sense organs that allow us to perceive the color of different objects…
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Images As Links and Alligators Too!
Images are also used as links and therefore must follow certain accessibility rules.
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Don’t Change the Way I Look
Link formatting should be consistent across your entire website and should be controlled from a master CSS file.