Use of Color - Information For This Demo
Quick tip: While you are looking for places where color is used to convey information, watch out for things like text decorations too. Sometimes bold or italic text is used to convey information that is not provided in any other way also.
How to test this issue
- Test technique: Read and Visual Scan.
- Visually scan the page looking for any information conveyed in a color other than the normal page text color.
- Also, read the page looking for instructions that refer to content by color. Examples might include things like negative numbers are shown in red, or items shown in green are environmentally friendly.
- For any instance where color is used to provide meaningful information, verify the information is provided in a textual way in addition to the color.
Failing WCAG Guidelines and Test Tips
For this demo, the following WCAG guidelines fail:
- 1.4.1: Use of color