Color Contrast - Choose Color with Care

The most common form of color deficiency, red-green color deficiency, affects approximately 8% of the population. Using ONLY colors such as these (especially to indicate required fields in a form) will make it more difficult for some visitors to your site to understand the meaning and messaging of your site. Depending on the sites construct it could create roadblocks in performing certain activities on your pages.

Other groups of people with disabilities, particularly users with learning disabilities, benefit greatly from color when used to distinguish and organize your content.

Be especially careful with light shades of gray, orange, and yellow.

To satisfy both groups, use color, but also be sure to use other visual indicators, such as an asterisk for required form fields. Be sure to also distinguish blocks of content from one another using visual separation (such as white space or borders).

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