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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Today's hot take: Peer review is not a replacement for critical thinking.

Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Bridge PCA is rebooted and running at bridgepca.com Bridge PCA uses the APCA contrast engine, but provides a modified output that directly indicates WCAG 2 compliance.

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Myndex™ Perception Research

Bridge PCA Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithim WCAG 2 Compatible APCA Contrast

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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 12/02/2025

One of the most important things about our public education system is at risk of being destroyed. 17 states are suing the federal government to bring down Section 504, which is arguably the single-most important law that paved the course of my entire life. www.frank.computer/blog/2025/02...

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Section 504 is under attack

A right that I had as a disabled student in the US is at risk of being destroyed.

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Andrey Sitnik @en.sitnik.es · 19/03/2025

Martians will be speaking at Figma’s main conference 🤯 So proud of our design team! They’ll be talking about dynamic colors—the result of our work around the OKLCH, APCA, and Apcach ecosystem.

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Sean Wilson @seanw.org · 05/12/2024

Hello Bluesky! 😄 Just to see how this works, for my first post, here's my side project inclusivecolors.com for creating WCAG accessible color palettes for web/UI design. Feedback very welcome! #accessibility #a11y #wcag #design #graphicdesign #webdev #webdesign #uidesign #css #figma #tailwind #ux

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InclusiveColors - Accessible color palette creator

Try it now to create your own color palettes!

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Christian "Schepp" Schaefer @schepp.dev · 15/03/2025

Service skeet: @ichimnetz.com + team made a color contrast tester that evaluates against both calculation systems simultaneously: palette-tester.9elements.com BTW, I'm as much of a huge fan of APCA as I'm of OKLAB + OKLCH. All those systems that adhere to human perception make so much more sense! 👏🏻

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Accessible Color Palette Tester

Create and test color palettes for WCAG & APCA contrast compliance. Name, reorder, and compare colors with real-time contrast ratings. Save & share via URL.

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 19/11/2024

Say hello to Pinwheel, an amazing way to convert colors and create design systems. bjango.com/mac/pinwheel/

A screenshot of Pinwheel, a new Mac app by Bjango. The screenshot shows a Pinwheel document, full of bright gradients and the user interface to generate the gradients.

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Nils Binder @ichimnetz.com · 17/02/2025

I built a little tool to check color contrast across an entire palette. 🎨 • Supports both WCAG 2.0 and APCA   • See how all colors compare at a glance • Import/Export CSS or JSON variables  • Make sure your palette works for everyone Try it: palette-tester.9elements.com

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bjango.com @bjango.com · 19/11/2024

Pinwheel does WCAG and APCA contrast testing, and so much more.

A screenshot of Pinwheel's APCA test results. It show 16 tests passed and 2 tests failed.

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Sean Wilson @seanw.org · 11/01/2025

Added basic mobile support to my color palette creator and lots of little bug fixes. 😄 Please reach out if you have any feature requests or challenging problems with creating your own branded palettes! www.inclusivecolors.com #designsky #a11y #design #webdesign #css #ux #accessibility #buildinpublic

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InclusiveColors - Accessible color palette creator

Try it now to create your own color palettes!

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Roman Shamin @romanshamin.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Thanks to the APCA algorithm, all colors stay visually cohesive across transformations. Under the hood, it leverages the OKLCH color model (of course), some opacity magic, and the real secret sauce: apcach, developed by Anton Lovchikov.

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I am sick to death of ableist bullies that claim to be accessibility advocates. FAFO, and the “find out” is coming soon.

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

@mary.my.id Just to mention, APCA is part of the APCA Readability Criterion, an open standard available from Inclusive Reading Technologies, Inc. A California non-profit, dedicated to science-based standards and research to improve readability for all. www.readtech.org/ARC/

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APCA Readability Criterion • Contrast

The APCA Readability Criterion (ARC) provides a range of recommendations for making visual content on illuminated displays more accessible to all users, especially with visual impairments

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Kaz Tsuchiya @caztcha.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

What should be the contrast level of inactive buttons? | by Giulia Alfarano | Oct, 2023 | UX Collective uxdesign.cc/what-should-... なるほど、APCA で Lc 30 を下回らないことを一つの基準に考える、というのは今後ありなのかも。

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Cyril Reze @cyrez.dev · 23/11/2023

The first Sass library to automatically generate accessible colors with the APCA algorithm. The future of digital color contrast is now! Feedback welcome! github.com/cyrezdev/a11...

Screenshot of GitHub repository for A11y APCA Sass Library.

Sass tools library to generate accessible colors with APCA contrast algorithm.

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

A short "ambient" film. "Angelisqatsi" is an homage to #Koyaanisqatsi About 6 minutes of imagery shot around LA and SoCal, set to Phillip Glass music and inspired by the work of Godfrey Reggio and Ron Fricke. vimeo.com/andrewsomers... #filmmaking #drone #Cinematography #dji

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Angelisqatsi • Life Out of Body (2023)

Angelisqatsi is a collection of drone cinematography around the Los Angeles and SoCal areas, set to music. Kudos to you if you recognize the music (or the reference…

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 20/08/2023

Small Text is Medium’s Large Fail In this article I examine problems in Medium's page design, particularly Medium's poor handling of body text. Free link below, bypasses paywall! #a11y tangledweb.xyz/small-text-is-medium…

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Small Text is Medium’s Large Fail

The Medium platform has a lot of good features going for it, yet it literally ignores visual accessibility. For a platform that is…

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 07/08/2023

Prolixity: excessively verbose writing. Is that a barrier to understanding APCA? To make it easier, we've simplified into a linktree. At the top is "APCA Easy Intro" a brief, plain language introduction to accessible contrast. linktr.ee/Myndex #a11y #accessible #color #colour #webdesign

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APCA — THE REVOLUTION WILL BE READABLE™

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 01/07/2023

The following info graphic is intended to demonstrate the nature of human contrast sensitivity, using text samples to connect the abstract science to practical reality. It's based on infographics I originally created several years ago. More info in ALT. #a11y #accessibility #webdesign #typography

This is a chart of the human contrast sensitivity curve. A blue line curves down to the right where the Y axis is contrast sensitivity, and the X access is spatial frequency, increasing toward the right. An increase in spatial frequency means elements are smaller and thinner.

On the right of this info graphic are samples of text from very large and bold to very thin and small, with red lead lines indicating approximately where those samples fall on the contrast sensitivity curve.

All of the text samples are at the exact same CSS color of #c7c7c7, the top very large and bold headline is legible but as the fonts become thinner and smaller they literally fade out as if becoming lighter gray, even though they are all at the exact same color.

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 19/06/2023

"9 Decisions made when developing a unified Dark Mode" by Simon Schmidt This is a really solid article going through a complete design and development process, and also extended evaluation of APCA as a contrast calc In a real working environment. #a11y #accessibility #color #design #colour

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9 Decisions made when developing a unified Dark Mode

The challenges and decisions made when merging two Dark Modes into one with an unsupportive corporate design and inconsistent naming scheme.

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 15/06/2023

Now looking for volunteers for a color vision study. We are particularly interested in individuals with color vision deficiency, however all vision types are welcome, age 21 and up. If you are interested please email: cvdstudy@myndex.com #a11y #accessibility #cvd #colorblind

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 15/06/2023

Honestly having a really strong understanding of your walk-away point & what you’re willing to accept or not (and sticking to it!) is so helpful. A lot of situations/people will push to see how little you’ll accept, but they can & will accommodate more. Happens in politics all the time but life too

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 13/06/2023

APCA improves accessibility over WCAG2 contrast by: 1) Correctly calculating reds and oranges, helping protan color insensitivity. 2) Correctly calculating dark mode, helping literally all users. 3) Using well established peer-reviewed vision & readability science to improve actual accessibility.

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Myndex @myndex.bsky.social · 11/06/2023

Researching: vision color contrast readability accessibility Developing: APCA, SACAM, IRT RC Orgs: Inclusive Reading Technologies (Founder) W3C (Invited Expert) Writing: IRT Readability Criterion, WCAG3 IRT: readtech.org APCA: apcacontrast.com "ColorBlind" Sim: myndex.com/CVD/ Blog: TangledWeb.xyz

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Myndex™ Technologies Color Vision Deficiency Simulator.

Myndex™ Technologies CVD - Color Vision Deficiency Simulator, advanced simulator for demonstrating color vision deficiency.

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