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Color Contrast Checking Tools

While most general-purpose accessibility testing tools will notify you of problems with color contrast, and sometimes even suggest a better color combination, they cannot always inform you definitively if there is sufficient contrast in certain circumstance, as when elements are absolutely positioned.  In those cases, you will have to find out what the relevant color values are and enter them in another tool to see if they meet contrast requirements.  Here are a few of those tools.