Accessible Color Picker

Accessible Color Picker
What is Accessible Color Picker?
The 'Accessible Color Picker' is a Chrome extension that helps designers ensure the accessible design of their websites. It assists by analyzing the contrast between foreground and background colors. The extension determines the color contrast ratio to ensure it can be easily read by users with vision impairments or color deficiencies. The extension also recommends compliant colors if the selected ones lack sufficient contrast. It keeps track of color history, previews text in selected colors, and allows testing of color variations. Hex codes can be edited and copied easily.

Extension stats

Users: 8,000+
Rating: 4.89 (9)
Version: 1.0.0.1 (Last updated: 2022-10-24)
Creation date: 2019-07-03
Risk impact: Very low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • storage
  • activeTab
  • scripting
Size: 4.03M

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Extension summary

There must be enhanced contrast between foreground and background text colors and images of text. Enhanced color contrast ensures that the page is usable by a very wide range of people with low vision and color deficiencies or when the page is viewed without color, and users of monochrome screens can understand page content.

Leverage this in-browser color picker to evaluate the accessibility of your color palette. This tool allows you to select foreground and background colors and will determine the color contrast ratio between them. If your colors do not have sufficient contrast, this tool will suggest similar colors that are compliant.

Additional features

  • History of last 10 foreground and 10 background colors selected
  • Preview sample text using selected colors
  • Toggle foreground and background to test variations
  • Editable hex codes with simple copy to clipboard button

User reviews

AMAYZING
by Hòa Thế, 2022-11-20

kullandıklarımın arasında en iyisi
by Ömer Bıçakcı, 2022-09-29

This works pretty well, though it does have performance issues. It has some delay after clicking, about 500-1000ms and causes the layout to readjust. It appears to be doing some kind of zooming feature but this is arguably unnecessary—the user can zoom in with the default browser actions if necessary, or perhaps the zooming can be an optional feature. Due to this zooming, it feels quite janky as it's unusable until the zooming has completed, but it works well enough that I'll keep using it. I think if the performance issues are resolved, this is easily 5 stars.
by Tina Holly, 2022-07-26
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Accessible Color Picker does not require any sensitive permissions.

Risk likelihood

Accessible Color Picker has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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