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Color Accessibility Workflows

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The Web Content #Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 contain recommendations from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) for making the web more accessible to users with disabilities, including #color blindness and other vision deficiencies.

#Contrast_checkers

One of my favorite tools is Lea Verou’s Contrast Ratio. It gives you the option of entering a color code for a background and a color code for text, and it calculates the ratio for you.
▻http://leaverou.github.io/contrast-ratio

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Another great tool that has the benefit of simultaneously showing whether a color combination passes both AA and AAA compliance levels is Jonathan Snook’s Colour Contrast Check
▻https://snook.ca/technical/colour_contrast/colour.html

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How We Hold Our Gadgets · An A List Apart Article
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Where do hands and fingers fall on the device? This question is the linchpin for every form factor this book examines, and the answer tells you how to design your layout for comfort and efficiency. Since we hold phones, phablets, tablets, and laptops very differently, it’s no surprise that each of these touchscreen variations has its own UI needs.

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