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Find out who can use your color combination. Whocanuse is a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people that have visual impairments.

Discover beautiful color combinations your whole audience can appreciate with the click of a button. Try our free accessible color palette generator today.

In this article, Andrew Somers, a 35-year veteran of the Hollywood film and television industry, shares his experience about the hard-fought battles and lessons learned designing for illuminated presentations.

How Material used color science to make design easier and more expressive than ever before

In this article, we’ll see how to make our sites friendly for Windows High Contrast Mode by using a good set of practices, including the media query `forced-colors` and its toolset.

AudioEye's patented industry-leading web accessibility solution and team of experts provide full support to help your website reach ADA & WCAG compliance.

If you have good vision, it's easy to assume that everyone perceives colors, or text legibility, the same way you do — but of course that's not the case.

Generate colors based on a desired contrast ratio.

The A11Y Project puts it best, and most bluntly: “Accessibility is hard.” If you’re feeling lost, start with color contrast.

Solve 30% of the web's accessibility defects with just the help of a calculator!

Enabling design & development teams to use colors deliberately for improved consistency in product

Are you checking color contrast in your design for optimal readability? Learn more from @troz's simple method.

Every time someone finds out I’m color blind, I’m always hit with the same question: “So, what color is this?” 95% of the time I’ll answer…

Every time someone finds out I’m color blind, I’m always hit with the same question: “So, what color is this?” 95% of the time I’ll answer…

Color blindness or color vision deficiency (CVD) affects around 1 in 12 men and 1 in 200 women worldwide. This means that for every 100…

According to Colour Blind Awareness 4.5% of the population are color-blind. If your audience is mostly male this increases to 8%. Designing for color-blind people can be easily forgotten because most designers aren’t color-blind. In this article I provide 13 tips to improve the experience for color-blind people – something which can often benefit people with normal vision too. There are many types of color blindness but it comes down to not seeing color clearly, getting colors mixed up, or not being able to differentiate between certain colors.

While the science behind color blindness is pretty complex, the gist of it is that color blind people have difficulty seeing color clearly or differentiating between some colors. With this in mind, in this article, we’ll share some tips on how you can improve your site’s accessibility and the experience it delivers for color blind people.

Two tools and some quick tips to easily create an accessible contrasted color palette for your designs, whether it's web, ui or even mobile design

There’s a lot of talk about accessible design, but have you ever thought about color accessibility?

All the tools, tips and resources your need to build and check the color accessibility and color constrast of digital products!

How do you let your users chose any color, but still make sure that the colors make your app useful and accessible? You create rules.

Contrast is a critical factor in web design, it’s important to get right because it has a strong influence on the visual aesthetic, but it’s especially important for readability and accessibility of text on the page. It’s not a revolutionary idea to suggest that we use Less or Sass to help choose an appropriate text color for a particular background. There are plenty of examples of this, but what is the best way?

There are an estimated 285 million people in the world who are visually impaired. This number includes anyone from legally blind, to those…

Beth Raduenzel covers the official guidance on color contrast from WCAG, then goes over and beyond to cover aspects that truly consider usability.

How to make themable, flexible, WCAG 2.1 compliant color ramps for a design system

Last month WordPress contributors approved accessibility coding standards for the core handbook. All new and updated code will need to conform with WCAG 2.0 level AA guidelines. With WordPress core…

There’s a growing demand for designers to make their interfaces accessible to all users. It’s important to accommodate users with disabilities, but there are many myths to color contrast accessibility being perpetuated by misinformed people. They often parrot these myths to discredit a design, without understanding in which situations a color contrast standard applies. Not […]