Article: Color Contrast

[RachelRVasquez]

Here's another work in progress:

https://gist.github.com/RachelRVasquez/d1c1e99cfdd9780c5918

Tackling it from the article list under "Concepts": #12

Let me know if it sounds like it's going in the right direction so far. :-)

[RachelRVasquez]

I think I'm just about done with this one - just not quite sure how I can wrap it up?

[thierryk]

You could mention high-contrast mode as few people are aware of this issue.

[RachelRVasquez]

Added a link from W3C about high contrast style switchers and mentioned in the "What else can we do" list about providing tools to adjust to a lower/higher contrast. It sounds like it might be useful to write additional articles or checklists about techniques for high and low contrast tools.

[thierryk]

@RachelRVasquez

When it comes to high-contrast mode, it is more about techniques than tools, so I'm not sure the W3C link is of much help—why not linking to the article I mentioned earlier?

[RachelRVasquez]

Added. 👍

[davatron5000]

👍 This is great @RachelRVasquez! Do you need help article-izing this? Or do you want to make a pull request?

[RachelRVasquez]

@davatron5000 I do need help actually. :-) I wasn't sure what the process was from this point onward. If you can tell me how to "article-ize" I'd like to learn how.

[davatron5000]

Article-izing is maybe a bit difficult if you're not familiar with the Jekyll system. Here's the process in a nutshell:

1. Download the project in something like GitHub Desktop or however you do git
2. Open the project folder, then open _posts
3. Duplicate example_post.md (https://github.com/a11yproject/a11yproject.com/blob/gh-pages/_posts/example-post.md) and retitle the file YYYY-MM-DD-seo-title-slug.md
4. Open the file in a text editor and paste your text below the --- metadata
5. Fill out the metadata and set published: true
6. Save the file
7. "Commit" the file.
8. Use the "Pull Request" button to send a pull request.

You can send your article up without ever using Jekyll. So that's nice. BUT If that seems overwhelming (and it was to me typing it out 😜 ), I'd be more than happy to do it.

I could also make a screencast to show how it works for in the future.

[RachelRVasquez]

@davatron5000 It looks like I got it. :-)

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