Debugging Accessible Contrast with Chrome Dev Tools
In this lesson, we use the element inspector in Chrome to test and improve our contrast to meet WCAG AA Contrast Ratio Standards.
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Instructor: [0:00] Let's use Chrome DevTools to inspect this element and debug the contrast. If I use this pointer tool in the Element Inspector, I can select an element. You can see that there's a tooltip and it gives you a bunch of different data.
[0:14] This data tells us we have a contrast ratio that doesn't meet WCAG accessibility standards. Additionally, we can select this paragraph. Next to the color property in the Styles Inspector, there's a box which represents a color picker, and we can select that picker.
[0:30] If we scroll down, we see a contrast ratio. When we click show more, we can use this refresh tool to give us an automatically accessible contrast.