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Success Criterion 1.4.1 - Use of Color - Level A #26

Open JJdeGroot opened 4 months ago

JJdeGroot commented 4 months ago

Discussion:

MATF meeting on July 17, 2024 [Source](https://www.w3.org/2024/07/17-matf-minutes.html#t02) JJ: How might apps be different? Best practice? Aashutosh: Talking about the use of textures Tori: We may want to be careful around visualisation - the colorblind folks hated textures. We should veer away from being too prescriptive, and allow many mechanisms for visualisation and communication Also Android has 0 libraries for data-vis - it's all bespoke at the moment SongBird Charts was good back in the day, but it's old now HighCharts is the lead in data viz now The car has no wheels! No clue about their mobile capabilities Thanks Tori, will check them out Detlev: We want to allow people to have many mechanisms for solving this problem +1 +1 to To

WCAG2ICT guidance: https://w3c.github.io/wcag2ict/#use-of-color

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arctouch-gleidsonramos commented 4 months ago

It seems to be pretty straightforward. No changes for applying in mobile apps.

JJdeGroot commented 4 months ago

This SC has not been covered in the meeting today, will be moved to next week (17 July)

double-a11y commented 4 months ago

Do we also want to include the use of textures to circumvent the use of colors? especially in the places of data visualisation. To be honest, the launch of iOS7 by 'sir Jony Ive' and later the flat design philosophy started focussing on the colors more, ignoring the use of color + textures. The evolution of the UI design tools can also be held responsible for this!