Description
To check the color contrast between foreground and background of the texts
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"Element" Keyword
"Checker" Keyword
"Change Color" Keyword
"Color" Keyword
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Review Summary
The WCAG Color contrast checker Chrome extension is appreciated for instantly detecting contrast pairs, providing detailed ratio info, and simulating color-blindness to help accessibility testing. Users find it fast, easy, and useful for validating color contrast dynamically. However, multiple reviews mention issues with the eyedropper tool's inaccurate color picking, problems handling opacity or complex CSS colors leading to incorrect readings, and a lack of UI features like saving manual corrections or panel repositioning. Privacy concerns also arose due to new permission requirements in recent updates.
Pros
- Automatically loads all contrast pairs found on the page without manual input.
- Provides actual contrast ratios rather than just pass/fail grades.
- Supports testing for different types of color-blindness by simulating their effects.
- Auto-refreshes to update contrast results dynamically, helpful for reactive elements.
- Easy to use and fast, helping quickly verify color contrast across pages.
Cons
- Eyedropper tool picks colors as rgba with zero alpha and doesn't update contrast, requiring manual hex input.
- Does not work well when background involves opacity over images or CSS color-mix, causing inaccurate color detection.
- Lacks the ability to retain manual background color corrections or save them between page reloads.
- User interface limitations include inability to change panel position and difficulty locating specific elements related to contrast issues.
- Added permissions (e.g., browser history) in updates raised privacy concerns among users.
Permissions
This extension can:
- activeTab
- storage
- webNavigation
This extension can access:
- <all_urls>
Additional Information
3.8.4
March 3, 2024
0.16 MB
en
Developer Information
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