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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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Having a mobile-friendly website means more than making your desktop website shrink down to fit a phone screen.
People interact with websites differently on a phone. They tap instead of click, scroll with their fingers, type on a small keyboard, and may be viewing your website in bright sunlight or while using one hand.
A website can technically be responsive and still be frustrating to use on a phone.
Use this checklist to review your website on mobile and catch
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Tagged mobile optimization, mobile usability, mobile website, mobile website checklist, mobile-friendly website, responsive web design, responsive website, touchscreen usability, wcag, web design, website accessibility, website checklist, website design, website usability
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Why Blocking Paste in Form Fields Is a UX Mistake
If you’ve ever tried to paste information into a form and were blocked, you know it’s frustrating. Yet, some teams still implement “no-paste” rules for account numbers, confirmation fields, or even passwords. Here’s why that approach doesn’t make sense - and why it’s time to stop.
Copying Improves Accuracy - Even When the First Entry Might Be Wrong
Some stakeholders justify disabling paste by arguing that if a user makes a mistake in the first field, copying it to the
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Posted in Website Design
Tagged accessibility, auto-formatting, blocking paste, form fields, format validation, trust, usability, user experience, ux, wcag, website security
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Web Design Fundamentals: A Beginner’s Guide
Introduction
Web design is the art and science of creating websites. It involves planning, creating, and maintaining websites. If you're interested in learning web design, this guide will provide you with the fundamental concepts and tools to get started. Click on the links for more discussion on the topic.
Core Principles of Web Design
- User Experience (UX): The focus should be on creating a seamless and intuitive experience for users.
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Tagged accessibility, adobe photoshop, atom, avoid clutter, cms, code editors, color theory, colors, content is king, create a mood, css, custom code, custom fonts, design tools, evoke emotions, Figma, fixed, fluid, fonts, grid, hierarchy, high-quality content, html, illustrator, javascript, keep it simple, keywords, layout, navigation, readability, responisve, responsive, responsive app, search engine optimization, seo, seo tips, styles manager, stylesheet, sublime text, typography, user experience, user interface, ux, visual appear, visual studio code, wcag, web content accessibility guidelines, web design trends, whitespace
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Does Google Page Speed Insights tell you if your website is ADA compliant?
No, Google PageSpeed Insights (PSI) does not directly tell you if your website is ADA compliant. While PSI offers valuable insights into website performance and accessibility, it focuses on technical aspects that contribute to accessibility, not legal compliance with ADA regulations.
Here's a breakdown:
- Focus of Google PageSpeed Insights: PSI audits your website's code and identifies potential accessibility issues. These issues might include missing alternative text for images, insufficient color contrast, or lack of keyboard navigation options. By addressing these
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Tagged accessibility, ada compliance, ada compliant, ada website accessibility initiative, alt tags, americans with disabilites act, color contrast, google page speed insights, keyboard navigation, page speed insights, psi, WAVE, wcag, web accessibility evaluation tool, web content accessibility guidelines
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How to Test the Color Contrast of Your Website for Accessibility?
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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Tagged accessibility, accessibility compliance, accessibility testing, accessibility tools, cms, color accessibility, color contrast, color contrast ratios, contrast, contrast ratio, styles manager, wcag, WCAG 2.0, WCAG 2.1, web design, website accessibility, website design, website testing
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