January 18, 2005
Color Contrast Check.
This is cool. The Color Contrast Check (I’m American, so I spell Color without the ‘u’, thanks.) is smart.
The Colour Contrast Check Tool allows to specify a foreground and a background colour and determine if they provide enough of a contrast“when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen.” [W3C]
Go play around with it. It’s great. Use the sliders, and it’ll tell you if it’s compliant, and to what degree.
This is SO much better than just relying on my own color-blindness to determine if something is compliant or not. Nice work Jonathan.
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craig snyder
Sometimes mousing over your text links in IE causes them to shift horizontally. Just thought you'd like to know. Nice design otherwise my friend.
Posted by: craig snyder | January 18, 2005 01:42 PM
Tony
Yeah, I've seen that shift happen. I'm aware of that, and a couple of other IE issues. Thing is, I'm just not motivated enough to fix them.
I work on a Mac at home, so can't easily view the problem, and really don't want to do it at work. I don't even want to go through my css code to see if something glaring. (note to LazyWeb: feel free to fix it for me and email me the fix.) It's motivation really that's the culprit here.
Thanks though.
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January 18, 2005 01:54 PM
craig snyder
A good possiblility is the padding you added around the links. I saved a copy of your page/css and deleted the padding: the links didn't shift. Still just a guess though...
Posted by: craig snyder | January 18, 2005 02:09 PM
Tony
Ahh.. That might be it.
See for why there is padding around the links. I'll have to check that out, put in a hack.
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January 18, 2005 02:34 PM
craig snyder
Yes I see what you are going for. But that method may be frought with tiny amounts of peril. this article may or may not be useful for what you are trying to do...
Posted by: craig snyder | January 18, 2005 02:59 PM