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Accessibility Contrast Checker

 
Simon Chester
Re: Accessibility Contrast Checker
by Simon Chester - Thursday, 3 March 2022, 4:36 PM
Group Totara

Hi Diane,

Internally we use https://contrast-ratio.com/ and the WEBAIM contrast checker. I've found them to be accurate, but I only really use the hex input.

Are you on macOS by any chance? I've found there are some issues when using the colour picker due to somewhat inconsistent implementation of colourspace management by browsers. Not really WEBAIM's fault as they just use the browser's colourpicker, and all browser-based tools are going to have the same limitation.

The most accurate way would be to load up the image in photoshop or another image editor, and use the internal colourpicker there to get the colours, then enter the hex code in to one of the contrast checker tool.