Accessibility Tools for Quality Assurance: Color Contrast
Accessibility, Free for Web, Tools
Accessibility testing tools are great for quality assurance (QA), even when the website doesn’t have to be accessible. For example, color contrast is a very subjective thing..
In contrast, color contrast analyzers use algorithms from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to obtain verifiable, objective results for luminosity, brightness and contrast..
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Downloads and links
There are various tools to test color contrast:
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- Opera: Web Accessibility Toolbar 1.1
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Full article: http://learningtheworld.eu/2008/color-contrast-tools/
License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 License
Indexed in April 2008
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