A Study in Contrast
Have you ever watched a foreign-language film, the dialog is set in subtitles, but you can’t read it because there’s not enough contrast between the text and the background, or because the background is just too busy? A bit of a pain, is it not.
Lots of attorney-authored blogs and law firm Web sites suffer a similar condition, particularly when it comes to disclaimers and such.
Consider the following notice that appears at the Hunton & Williams’ Web site:
Not so easy to read is it?
Let’s turn up the contrast and see what happens:
Much better, is it not? But there’s still that itsy-bitsy type in the last line that’s hard to read. Of course, had the site been properly designed, all a reader has to do is get his browser to increase the size of all the text, but that doesn’t work. The notice doesn’t increase in size as it should.
This doesn’t portray the firm as one that’s sensitive to people with disabilities.
