Tag: color

Make those links clickable, please!

December 4, 2010

8 Comments

Topics: Usability.

Some time ago, I ran across an interesting post on Clients from Hell: Website user who couldn’t find an article emailed our help desk. We sent him the link to the content he couldn’t find. Client: “Please change the letters in your email to blue, so I can click the link.” Clients from Hell While this was intended to ridicule a misunderstanding — that the client couldn’t click the link unless the letters were blue — it does stand to […]

Continue reading “Make those links clickable, please!” »

New tool: evaluate color contrasts for WCAG 1 and 2

September 7, 2008

5 Comments

Topics: Accessibility.

Use the color contrast evaluation tool. There are, of course, a lot of color contrast evaluation tools available on the web. Roger Johansson published a list of 10 color contrast checking tools last September, and there are undoubtedly more out there yet. In fact, for a long time, I’ve primarily used the three tools by Gez Lemon which are on that list: Color Contrast Analyzer Luminosity Contrast Ratio Color Contrast Analyzer Firefox Extension I certainly have no intention to stop […]

Continue reading “New tool: evaluate color contrasts for WCAG 1 and 2” »