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Reduced font sizes should be used sparingly. Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, navboxes and reference sections. In no case should the resulting font size drop below 85% of the page font size (or 11px). | Reduced font sizes should be used sparingly. Avoid using smaller font sizes in elements that already use a smaller font size, such as infoboxes, navboxes and reference sections. In no case should the resulting font size drop below 85% of the page font size (or 11px). | ||
=== | === Color === | ||
{{ | {{main|UniWiki:Manual of Style/Accessibility#Color}} | ||
====In prose ==== | ====In prose ==== | ||
Prose text should never be manually colored. Refrain from implementing [[Help:Link color|colored links]] that may impede user ability to distinguish links from regular text, or color links for purely aesthetic reasons. | Prose text should never be manually colored. Refrain from implementing [[Wikipedia:Help:Link color|colored links]] that may impede user ability to distinguish links from regular text, or color links for purely aesthetic reasons. | ||
====In templates and tables ==== | ====In templates and tables ==== | ||
#Colors used in templates such as [[Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#Navigation templates|navboxes]] and [[Wikipedia:Infobox|infoboxes]], and in [[Wikipedia:Table|tables]], should not make reading difficult, including for colorblind or otherwise visually impaired readers. | #Colors used in templates such as [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Categories, lists, and navigation templates#Navigation templates|navboxes]] and [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Infobox|infoboxes]], and in [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia:Table|tables]], should not make reading difficult, including for colorblind or otherwise visually impaired readers. | ||
#Colors that are useful for identification and are {{em|appropriate, representative, and accessible}} may be used with discretion and common sense. In general, text color should not be anything other than black or white (excluding the standard colors of hyperlinks), and background colors should contrast the text color enough to make the template easily readable. | #Colors that are useful for identification and are {{em|appropriate, representative, and accessible}} may be used with discretion and common sense. In general, text color should not be anything other than black or white (excluding the standard colors of hyperlinks), and background colors should contrast the text color enough to make the template easily readable. | ||
#An "appropriate, representative" color, when intended to identify with an organization's logo or branding, should use the most prominent {{em|accessible}} color in the logo | #An "appropriate, representative" color, when intended to identify with an organization's logo or branding, should use the most prominent {{em|accessible}} color in the logo. A representative color useful in a navbox is often already present in an article's infobox (if included). | ||
#In the case that no properly identifying, accessible color exists; or the subject of the template or table should not be identified with a particular color (e.g., an average biography), the default colors provided by the template or the table class should be used. | #In the case that no properly identifying, accessible color exists; or the subject of the template or table should not be identified with a particular color (e.g., an average biography), the default colors provided by the template or the table class should be used. | ||
#If an article includes several navboxes whose colors conflict with each other, discretion should be used to minimize the visual disruption by using the default colors for navboxes. | #If an article includes several navboxes whose colors conflict with each other, discretion should be used to minimize the visual disruption by using the default colors for navboxes. | ||