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Official Electric Church

Submitter’s comments: There’s something bizarre about not being able to read what’s on a church web site.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I agree. You’d think it would be more important to be able to read what’s on a church site than on a commercial site. If the Bible were written like religious-oriented web sites are designed, Christianity would only exist as a small Jewish cult.

Ironically, this site looks like a church site, but it’s a site for a band. Yes, I know music sites are exempt because they’re not real businesses and nobody cares about them but their fans, but the site is more useful than most sites, except for the lack of contrast.

I ran the home page through AccessColor and they said:

1. Both color difference and color brightness do not meet the recommended standard for 0% of the total text.
2. Either color difference or color brightness does not meet the recommended standard for 87.9% of the total the text.

   A Warning message is displayed next to the HTML source line.

Text on background with images is for 7.39% of the total text.

What’s important to note is that the text on background with images is actually the menu and you can’t read the menu. Didn’t anybody to see if you could read the text on the menu? The text is also too light, but it isn’t as bad as other sites like Xerox and Techsoup.org.

Official Electric Church