Accessibility check
Text meets the colour contrast requirement
Text contrast follows WCAG 2 AA for normal and large text.
medium severitya11y.contrast
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Why it matters
Low contrast text is unreadable for a large share of people, especially on a phone in daylight. It is the most common accessibility failure on the web.
How to fix it
Darken the text or lighten the background until the pair reaches 4.5 to 1 for normal text and 3 to 1 for large text.
The details
- Category
- Accessibility
- Severity of a failure
- medium
- Confidence
- medium
- Needs a browser
- Yes
- Check id
- a11y.contrast