The 4.5:1 contrast rule hit different after I tested my own slides at a coffee shop on Burnet Road | Color Contrast Checks

Grant Torres · 2026-10-12T03:20:02.675979+00:00

Sat down last month to check my deck for a talk and ran every slide through a contrast checker. Found out 14 of my 38 slides failed the 4.5:1 ratio for body text, and the gray I loved so much sat at 2.9:1. How are you all handling text over images without just tossing a black box behind it?

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