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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jun-2025 13:21:53 JST Paul Cantrell

   Is there a way for a web page to query whether increased contrast is turned on at the OS level?

   I think the answer is no, but if there’s a way in the W3C works, I figure Fedi knows.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 04:29:30 JST Paul Cantrell

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     UPDATES:

     1. My site (https://innig.net/) now offers high-contrast theme if the OS / browser is set to high contrast mode. Works in both light and dark mode! Further accessibility improvements to come.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 04:30:59 JST Paul Cantrell

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     2. Many online accessibility checkers apparently audit text contrast without actually applying `prefers-contrast: more` to the stylesheet. This seems…broken?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 04:33:13 JST Paul Cantrell

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     3. Sa11y is a really great tool: https://sa11y.netlify.app It’s a live, in-page accessibility audit whose workflow is far, far more useful for actually improving the page than the server-based “enter your URL” online services. Killer features:

     - It live-highlights potential issues on the page.

     - It lets you dismiss warnings and •remembers that you dismissed them•, so it can offer subjective concerns that require manual review (e.g. “this image is marked as decorative; is that correct?”).

     - Per the previous post, it actually respects the contrast setting, because it reports on what’s on the screen.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 05:04:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:

     @Steve
     There can’t be an •equivalent• exactly, because Sa11y is Javascript that runs inside the web page, and there is no such thing for PDFs. But I know there are PDF accessibility auditing tools out there! (I have no experience with them.)

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     Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines: (steve@social.coop)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 05:04:10 JST Stephen Dioxide :TwinPines:

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     @inthehands Is there an equivalent to evaluate accessibility of PDFs?

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 05:08:03 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Corvus

     @corvus
     Using it for my personal site now, but I’ll also shortly be using it on the site for a fall course site that I hope can double as a public open education resource.

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     Corvus (corvus@mapstodon.space)'s status on Sunday, 22-Jun-2025 05:08:05 JST Corvus

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     @inthehands
     This looks great. Currently working through a course on Open Educational Resources and accessibility is an essential part of the process. One of the webpages I manage has already been audited for AODA compliance so it will be good to see what a different assessment tool says.