Making Your Web Colors Visible For All – Five Color Accessibility Tools

August 19th, 2009 admin

If you are designing, or re-designing your web site, it is time well spent running your website through the color accessibility tools below to ensure that your site can be seen correctly by as many people as possible. Most of these tools use WC3 guidelines to perform their various operations.


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