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Föderation EN Di 13.05.2025 20:50:11 Have you ever wished the browser would look at a background color and pick black or white for the text — whichever one provides more contrast? Now, the `contrast-color()` function in CSS does just that. |
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Föderation EN Di 13.05.2025 21:06:39 @jensimmons |
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Föderation EN Di 13.05.2025 21:47:11 @jensimmons Nighty new feature. Also, I was delighted by the in-depth discussion about choosing colors for accessibility. Thanks for calling that out! |
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Föderation EN Di 13.05.2025 21:56:50 You may find this of interest - I use this a lot; |
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Föderation EN Di 13.05.2025 23:01:22 @jensimmons Because feedback was requested: I will not use this until a better contrast calculation algorithm has been implemented. APCA has been shown to be superior in every real-world test I have seen. While I'm happy that you've indicated willingness to replace it later, I would have loved to see more leadership from the Webkit team. Please adopt a superior contrast scoring method (APCA) instead of a demonstrably broken algorithm that is divorced from how we perceive colour and contrast. |
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Föderation EN Di 13.05.2025 23:30:03 @jensimmons This is so cool. Is there any info about where this is in the standards process? I had trouble finding much info about it, so I assume it’s still early days? |
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Föderation EN Mi 14.05.2025 00:37:36 @estoner Oh it’s fully specified: This version that choses between black/white that is. |
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Föderation EN Mi 14.05.2025 01:37:08 @jensimmons Aha! That helps, thank you. I’m having trouble finding any record of it in places like caniuse and MDN; is it too early for that, or would it be files under something other than “contrast-color”? |
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Föderation EN Mi 14.05.2025 01:40:09 @estoner It's not too early to be on MDN / in MDN BCD or in Can I Use. It’s just that no one has added it yet. (Git PR on GitHub to the open source project(s) will do it.) |
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Föderation EN Di 13.05.2025 23:31:56 @jensimmons Would love to see the Messages team show this same interest in contrast ratios, since it's well documented that green texts have an accessibility-unfriendly contrast ratio while blue ones don't, presumably a cynical play to increase the unattractiveness of green texts. |
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Föderation EN Di 13.05.2025 23:42:58 @jensimmons is that first s a typing error? |
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Föderation EN Mi 14.05.2025 00:35:54 @mjr Yes. Thanks! And thankfully I can fix it on Mastodon. |
