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WCAG 2.0 Contrast tools

admin — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:52:59 +0000

One of the challenges of modern web design is ensuring that the colours used are WCAG 2.0 contrast compliant. Although there are sites that automatically check a URL for WCAG 2.0 contrast compliance they’re not really that useful for the design process. Here are a couple of useful tools that we use on our projects.

Colour Contrast Checker

Colour Contrast Checker is a fantastic online tool that allows to specify a foreground and a background colour and determine if they provide enough of a contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits or when viewed on a black and white screen. Though it doesn’t automatically check you’re Photoshop or Fireworks visuals it does give you some fighting chance when having to design WCAG 2.0 contrast compliant sites.

Colour Oracle

Colour Oracle is a free tool that simulates deuteranopia, protanopia and tritanopia. By using a system-wide menu you can quickly simulate what colourblind people see. Also, as this is a system-wide tool it doesn’t matter what application you use for your designs.

You may of noticed a few changes

admin — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:22:23 +0000

As you can see the website has undergone a bit of an evolution. We loved the old version of the site and it did get a fair amount of recognition but we felt that it was starting to look a bit tired and needed a bit of a refresh. Thank you old friend, you served us well.

The new version of the site now uses WordPress to manage all of the content and not just the blog. Seeing as we use WordPress on the majority of our projects now we thought it be best that we practice what we preach.

Another successful upgrade

admin — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 07:51:20 +0000

We upgraded our blog to the latest version of WordPress with no problem. We have said it before and we will say it again, WordPress is amazing.

Wordpress upgrade

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:38:28 +0000

We have recently upgraded to the latest version of Wordpress. As ever the upgrade was smooth and went without a hitch; this really is testament to the brilliance of Wordpress and the development team behind it.

Aespec now with friendly permalink structure

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:37:45 +0000

Silly us forgot to change the permalink structure of our blog. The URI structure is now much more friendlier for humans and robots alike.

It’s Live!!

admin — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:32:42 +0000

Well, after some time the new Aespec website is now finally live! Any comments or feedback most welcome.

Aespec in your pocket

admin — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:26:03 +0000

We now work on your iPhone / iPod touch!

iPhone / iPod touch development

admin — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:05:49 +0000

We have been experimenting with Safari 3 on both the iPhone and iPod touch and all in all are gob-smacked by what this little browser can do! We shall keep you updated with our adventures…