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That Standards Guy is the online persona of Karl Dawson, a web developer living and working in Ipswich, England.

I'm a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and the Web Standards Group and team member at Accessites—an awards site to recognise accessible and usable websites.

I specialise as a front-end developer and worry about the minutae of semantic (X)HTML and CSS, accessibility, microformats, typographic rhythm and grid design. I also care about the user experience and remind myself constantly of visitor site goals when working with clients and their aims.

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Colour contrast for dyslexics

November 1st, 2006

Mel Pedley’s second article in her series on designing for dyslexics is now available to read over at Accessites. It’s another excellent read that provides some anecdotal evidence towards adopting Hewlett Packard’s colour difference threshold over that suggested by checkpoint 2.2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0. To support testing against Hewlett Packard’s algorithm, Mel has created an alternative colour contrast analyser and kindly asks for any feedback on it.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 at 5:38 pm and is filed under Accessibility.

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