Session on Styling in Forced Colors Mode

Staff Reporter

On 14^th April 2022 at 1pm (ET), A11y Talks is hosting a session on ‘Practical Styling in Forced Colors Mode’. The session will be with Mike Hercel, a Senior front-end developer at AVB Digital and a member of the Drupal Association.

The session will revolve around how forced colors work, how to style them, several accessibility violations that frequently occur in forced colors, CSS techniques to fix these issues and how to properly test forced colors mode. It would also help the participants if they are familiar with CSS.

Within Drupal 10, they are creating two new themes that, because of Drupal’s stringent accessibility requirements, need to work perfectly with forced colors mode. According to Mike, developing for forced colors mode can be a bit complicated, but there are some concepts and techniques that, once learned, make styling in forced colors much more straightforward.

Forced colors is when assistive technology actively changes a website's colors to accommodate people with limited vision. The most common technology that uses this is Windows high contrast mode, which according to Microsoft, is used by 4% of Windows users worldwide.

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