🗺 Mapping Human Contrast
🌈 Color 👁 Vision🔬Research
🍊 APCA🐄Readability Criterion
✍🏻 Actually Awake Autistic Author
🌎W3C👨🏼🔬Invited Expert 📖WCAG3
Jan 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Revised font lookup tables.
NEW: when used as body text, table cells outlined in yellow should have Lc 15 added to the listed contrast figure (see the +15). Fonts outlined in blue/teal (ish) may use the value as listed, but may benefit from an additional Lc10 to Lc15. ++
--For developers, there are ready-to-go arrays of the look up tables, presorted by Lc value, and also with a table of pre-calculated interpolation values, and more.
On the left, the existing WCAG 2.x 1.4.3
On the right, the challenger, WCAG 3's APCA
IN THIS TEST: Body text, headlines, and non-text (buttons). Which do you find more readable?
(Note: on the left is WCAG 2 at AA or better, but it fails APCA)
Some questions asked recently: How about CVD (color impaired)? How about about 3 way color? 3 way usually involved a button, text on the button, and body text on the page. 1.4.3 tried to fit a center grey (nope!) APCA is perceptually accurate, allowing full body text contrast..+