Designing for Accessibility: Contrast Ratio

engineering Last Updated: May 16, 2024 Ariana Escobar and Jamie White

This is the second post in a two-part series about accessibility. The first post shares why designing for accessibility is important to us and why we encourage you to incorporate it into your software design process.

Heroku’s first accessibility initiative was to reach Level AA for luminance contrast ratio as defined by the internationally recognized best practices of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. This ratio guarantees the legibility of text against its background, in order to ensure all users can perceive Heroku’s user interfaces equally.

This benefits people with color-vision deficiencies (like Deuteranopia or Protanopia which affect 7 to 12% of men), age-related...

Equality Through Accessibility

life Last Updated: August 21, 2019 Ariana Escobar and Jamie White

This is the first post in a two-part series about accessibility. Part two shares our design and development process addressing one aspect of accessibility in the Heroku product.

Equality as a Salesforce Value

We at Salesforce firmly believe that access to information and the ability to contribute to our digital environment should be recognized as basic human rights, not a nice-to-have features.

Globally, hundreds of millions of people have physical, speech, cognitive, and neurological disabilities, and while in practice accessibility is about designing for users with disabilities, it also benefits everyone. Most of us have experienced conditions that impair our ability to get work done...