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   Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 03:39:42 JST Richard MacManus

   Apparently 86% of websites have “Low Contrast Text”, making it the most common #accessibility issue (even more than missing alt text). I’m quite surprised by this, as I thought most websites still have white background with black type. Maybe it’s a font size thing in many cases…Anybody have more info on this issue? https://accessibility.day/

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 03:39:24 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Matze
     • luke :neocat_laptop:

     @matze @ricmac @luke that is a great decision tree!

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     Matze (matze@dewp.space)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 03:39:38 JST Matze

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     • luke :neocat_laptop:

     @ricmac @luke No alt text is okay more often than it first seems. See also: https://www.w3.org/WAI/tutorials/images/decision-tree/

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 03:39:39 JST Richard MacManus

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     • luke :neocat_laptop:

     @luke thankfully my website has no text contrast issues. I did discover, however, that there is an alert for "Redundant alternative text", which I didn't even know was a thing. Seems a bit odd to recommend no alt text, but I will bear it in mind going forward. #accessibility

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     luke :neocat_laptop: (luke@mastsocial.de)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 03:39:40 JST luke :neocat_laptop:

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     @ricmac Looking at their methodology, a web page fails the check if there is at least one element with low-contrast text in the DOM. That's why they additionally provide the error density as context.

     It's not hard to imagine why the percentage is relatively high then. Even if the main text is black on white, headings or menus are often in different colours.

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 03:39:41 JST Richard MacManus

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     • Adrian Roselli

     @aardrian I meant...er, *more information*. The links you provide are helpful, yes, but don't answer my question: why are 86% of pages failing the 'low contrast text' test? Do you know?

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     Adrian Roselli (aardrian@toot.cafe)'s status on Friday, 16-May-2025 03:39:42 JST Adrian Roselli

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     @ricmac What “more information” do you mean? The page you link points to the WebAIM million, which explains and lets you look up sites:
     https://webaim.org/projects/million/