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Vincent Flanders’ comments: I finally succumbed to the Borg. I bought an iPad. My initial reaction can be summed up in 3 words — “iPod Touch Plus.”

I used my PC to go out and look for iPad apps at iTunes (that statement should tell you something about the iPad). I found an interesting app called “reader” by dBelement. I was stunned to discover the home page is hard to read. Uh. IT’S HARD TO READ THE HOME PAGE OF A SITE PROMOTING A BOOK READER???????

That’s what AccessColor reported. Here’s a screen shot of the report. Over 93% of the text fails the W3C guidelines.

In case they change the home page, here’s a screen capture. My watermarks are so much brighter than the text that it’s difficult to find the text on the home page. I think there’s a point here.

The good news is the dBelement page looks great on the iPad because they created a special mobile version.

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