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How to Make Sure Your Website Colors Have Enough Contrast for Accessibility

Choosing colors for a website is not just about whether they look good together. Your text, backgrounds, links, buttons, and other elements also need enough contrast to remain readable and distinguishable.

A color combination that looks perfectly clear on your monitor may be difficult for someone else to read, especially for people with low vision or color vision deficiencies.

Here are some practical things to check when choosing and reviewing your website colors.

1. Check the contrast between text and

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How to Test the Color Contrast of Your Website for Accessibility?

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Picking colors is simple with the UltimateWB built-in Styles Manager.

A website can look great and work well, but if the text is difficult to read because there isn't enough contrast between the colors, some visitors may struggle to use it.

Color contrast is an important part of website accessibility. Good contrast makes text and other elements easier to see and read, including for people with low vision or color vision deficiencies.

In this article, we'll look at how to

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