[bcab] Re: Accessibility considerations

Hallo  there.
I wonder which screen reader you are using ? I think a lot depnds on this. dorothy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karina Gregory" <karina.gregory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 5:50 PM
Subject: [bcab] Accessibility considerations


Hi all,
I've just come across a website that claims to have WAI - AA and WCAG 1.0 having a symbol in the corner of ths creen. The thing that I don't agree with is the colour contrast - white text on a light blue background. My question is that when websites are tested by an accessibility website/program for accessibility, is colour contrast taken into consideration? Surely the colour schemes to be used can be picked up from the code. If it isn't already taken into consideration, maybe it could be i nthe future by specifying to the accessibility tool what is good contrast and what is bad contrast. Do you follow what I'm saying? For example, if the tool was told that white text on a light blue background was not good contrast then it woud be able to reject websites that were accessed using this method. 

I'm interested in hearing the views of others on this topic.

Thanks.
Karina 
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