[WEB4LIB] Re: Web page color & accessibility

[Patricia F Anderson]

Yes, wasn't it amusing? That a significant percentage of the web sites
talking about best choices of colors for web page backgrounds and text
broke their own rules! It does somewhat handicap the credibility of the
information reported. ;-) -- Patricia Anderson, pfa at Umich.edu

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Nancy Sosna Bohm wrote:

> From: "Patricia F Anderson" <pfa at umich.edu>
> > <http://hubel.sfasu.edu/research/AHNCUR.html>
> > "When light text is placed on a dark background ...."
>
> I just looked at this study by Ann Hill and observed an interesting
> meta-study phenomenom (so to speak):
>
> Table 1 indicates that Italicized Times in Green on Yellow has a very short
> reaction time. Surely this must be owing to some outside factor (e.g., the
> green on yellow was shown to the participants last and contained the same
> text); even non-italicized Times in green on yellow is difficult to read, as
> can be observed on Hill's webpage (and which I will therefore not be reading
> in its entirety).