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[css-color-4] Add Accessibility Considerations
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5 November 2019</a></h3>
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<ul>
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<li>Added an Accessibility Considerations section</li>
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<li>Started to describe chroma-reduction gamut mapping rather than per-component clipping</li>
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<li>Corrected white chromaticity for rec2020</li>
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<li>Made device-cmyk available by @color-profile; updated CMYK to color algorithm to only use naive conversion as a last resort</li>
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to create user interfaces that appear to be from the system.
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However, as several system colors are now defined to be "generic",
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this risk is believed to be mitigated.
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Accessibility Considerations {#a11y-sec}
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This specification <a href="#notes">encourages authors to not use
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color alone</a> as a distinguuishing feature.
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This specification <a href="css-system-colors">encourages browsers to ensure
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adequate contrast for specific system color foreground/background pairs</a>.
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A harder requirement with specific AA or AAA contrast ratios was considered,
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but since browsers are often just passing along coor choices made by the OS,
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or selected by users (who may have particular requirements,
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including lower contrast for migraine or epileps sufferers), the CSSWG
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was unable to require a specific contrast level.

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