Deliberate Brook across Damming: WCAG Accessibility & Inclusive Color

Deliberate Brook across Damming — a 70%-saturated Orange at 50% lightness (RGB (217-93-38)) — WCAG compliance requirements and inclusive color use strategies.

Deliberate Brook across Damming
#D95D26 · RGB (217-93-38) · HSL(18°,70%,50%)

Accessibility: Best text on RGB (217-93-38) is black (ratio 5.54:1 — WCAG AA ✅). Check your own contrast →

Color Accessibility Standards

WCAG 2.1 defines contrast requirements for people with low vision or color blindness. Core rule: color must never be the only way information is conveyed. WCAG 3.0 (in development) introduces APCA — a more nuanced algorithm that better matches human perceptual contrast for small text and colored backgrounds.

Applying Deliberate Brook across Damming in Accessibility

Making RGB (217-93-38) work accessibly:

  • Calculate contrast ratio against your background — check both white and black text options
  • If insufficient, adjust lightness only (not hue) to maintain color identity
  • Test under all 8 major color vision deficiency types
  • Add non-color indicators for all errors, status signals, and data encoding
  • Ensure focus indicators meet 3:1 contrast against adjacent colors

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