Contrast — Color Accessibility 4+

A, AA, AAA scoring still based on 2.0.
As others have said, it did used to pick color accurately, but has since switched to showing an invalid color. I manipulated my monitor color scheme and confirmed that I get consistent picker results. It very literally thinks #6c = #7f, I think.

When color pickers 'mess that up', it's usually because they grab the literal color (like pantone pickers, which are for art and make sense to do that) vs the rendered color. That's the reason I initially picked Contrast, because it was NOT grabbing the color based on my monitor color profile values, but grabbing a rendered value. But now it seems to be choosing a color at random, or from a limited color database... or something.

So yeah, I have to move on and will now use inspector scores, since google added it recently, but thank you for providing this tool! It was very helpful when Accessibility testing was in its infancy. Hope you update it some day, since it was nice to use on comps and other text.

Unfortunately the color picker doesn't work. Like many other said, the value is completely wrong, hence the contrast ratio is not reliable. I can't really use it. The reason that I need a handy desktop app is so that I can pick a color on my screen. Otherwise I can just use any free web color contrast tool to enter the hex values and calculate.

This is a very useful tool that should be apart of every inclusive designer’s toolbox. However, there is room to approve

* Rapid color picking, would be nice to pick primary and secondary colors without having to return to the tooltip
* rgba, hsl, and more color modes should be supported
* Keyboard shortcuts