Accessibility Practice: Poor Color Contrast

Challenge: Use your favorite color contrast checker to test the text below. We recommend using the WebAIM Contrast Checker and a color picker tool like ColorZilla or another browser extension to get the text and background colors. Does the color combination meet WCAG guidelines for body text?

This is an example of light gray text on a white background. It’s very hard to read, especially for people with low vision or age-related vision changes.

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