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Daily Sucker #1 for Wednesday, January 9, 2008

January 8th, 2008 11:11 pm by V. Flanders

Submitter’s comments: Whew - it is really bad and has been for years.Vincent Flanders’ comments: A very simple web site where the text is:

  • Flush left / centered
  • Multicolored — red, white, orange, yellow, dark blue, blue — often on the same page

We also have divider bars.

Like every third web site, the lack of contrast is a problem. I ran the home page through AccessColor and got the following report:

Report summary

The W3C recommends a standard of 500 or greater for the color difference and a standard of 125 or greater for color brightness.

Based on these considerations, the results for this page are:

  1. Both color difference and color brightness do not meet the recommended standard for 31.03% of the total text.A Fail message is displayed next to the HTML source line.

Both color difference and color brightness fail

It’s definitely fugly.

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