Is there a way to check color contrast ratio of text over image in Photoshop for Accessibility?

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November 9, 2020
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Is there a Photoshop feature / plugin to check whether my white headline text over an image is Accessibiliy AA compliant?

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Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/photoshop.html

This is a start, but here is a specific plugin for Check Contrast Ratio

https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.details.12170.check-contrast-ratio.html

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DennyKurienAuthor

Participant

Thank you. I've used the plugin Check Contrast Ratio, but that only checks the contrast ratio between a solid color background, and a solid color typography. I need to check a text overlay over an image if it complies to AA standards

Kevin Stohlmeyer

Community Expert

You can upload your image to Chrome and try this extension:

https://accessibility.oit.ncsu.edu/tools/color-contrast-chrome/

LinSims

Community Expert

Let me move this to the Photoshop forum for you, which is the appropriate forum for your question.

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