Re: WANTED: Design for documentation (Photoshop power users!)

[Brett Duncan]

Patrick McCarty wrote:

> I'm still experimenting with this.  :-)
>
> I've created another design with a color palette that passes the W3C
> Web Content Accessibility guidelines for color contrast:
>
> http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/texi2html/start-alt-alt.html
> http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/texi2html/lilypond-alt-alt-index.html
> http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/texi2html/internals-alt-alt.html
> http://uoregon.edu/~pmccarty/texi2html/snippets-alt-alt.html
>
> The blue links are very close to pure blue (#00F), which is a little
> bit intense, but there aren't very many blues that pass the
> guidelines.  What does everyone think about this?  Are there any
> colors from this design that you like more than those from the
> previous design?

Overall, LGTM, but yes, the blue links are a bit intense against the 
green background. #0030B8 might be more like what you want. Or you could 
try something more blue-green than just blue, e.g. #006078 (which still 
meets the requirements for WCAG 1.0 and 2.0).

My $0.02 (Australian, and so worth even less! ;-)

Brett