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On 09/01/2008, Jon Free <jon at tangymedia.co.uk> wrote:
> How are you viewing it to get those results?

> Have you edited the standard background color or something?

I've set my browser's default background colour to grey, so that I can
view transparent PNGs with white in the foreground, and annoyingly
point out to people when they've failed to set a background colour :)

I suspect it's probably only one of several accessibility issues in a
.NET site*, but it's nonetheless important to set both a foreground
and a background colour, as you can't guarantee that a user will have
a white default background, and you may end up with a situation where
the text is illegible until the user changes their config; you don't
want to risk them saying "stuff this for a game of soldiers" and going
to another site instead.

Tim

* Yes, I know things are better in 2.0 but it seems, by default, to
insist on JavaScript being available for things to even function;
progressive enhancement is something that doesn't come out of the box.
Nor does it, it must be said, in other frameworks like Ruby on Rails.