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You are looking at my Theater Videography web site, which is, as I said, being changed because I am changing my business plan.  But since the backgrounds of the stages tend to be black, it`s a nice transition to a black page.

I haven`t submitted it to this group for a thrashing because it is changing.

What would you do in the alternative?  Would a dark gray background (51,51,51)  work better?


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Steve



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I looked at Videography`s site, and I think we can say that if the white is in a large enough font size, against a dark black background like that, it`s easy enough to read. The important part is the pictures standing out so strongly on the pages.

Content and copywriting are a different issue, but this particular site is one of the few "white text on black" sites I`ve seen that are readable. Where I seem to have more problems is in situations where the color difference between the text and background isn`t very much. Dark blue text on a light blue background, for example, or the apparently popular gray on white.


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Dale King, you do not have a right to redefine contrast and assert that this definition is subjective (e.g. "many possible definitions"). You show your incompetence.

Here`s something for you:

Guideline 2.2  of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0  requires that foreground and background colour combinations provide sufficient contrast when viewed by someone having colour deficits, or when viewed on a black and white screen. Two colours provide good colour visibility if the brightness difference and the colour difference between the two colours are greater than a set range. They suggest a colour contrast algorithm, which is used in this test.

White on black or black on white has same contrast value.

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DaleKing,
I thought we`re talking about contrast?
And sorry for the tone, but it aggravates me when people feel they have authority to redefine things according to their subjective preferences.  

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Haha, that`s quite an excuse!

Well on the other note, why do you think W3C came up with the contrast guidelines?