On this page:
Any technology where text and background color are specified separately and browsers can control default colors.
This technique relates to:
The objective of this technique is to make sure that users can read text that is presented over a background. With this technique the author avoids having to do any contrast measures by simply not specifying the text color and not specifying the background. As a result the colors of both are completely determined by the user agent.
Example 1: Author specifies neither text color nor background. They also do not use CSS. As a result the user can set his browser defaults to provide the colors and contrasts that work well for them.
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Look in all places that text color can be specified
Check that text color is not specified
Look in all areas that background color or image used as a background can be specified
Check that no background color or image used as a background is specified
# 2 and 4 are true
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