WCAG Contrast Checker for News & Media
WCAG Contrast Checker — built for rapid indexation and Google News optimization.
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The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. This is normal text (16px) shown with your selected colour combination.
Large text preview (18px bold / 24px)
Small text (12px): Fine print, captions, and footnotes should also be readable.
Colour blindness simulation
How this tool helps for News & Media sites
for News & Media websites must meet WCAG colour contrast standards to be accessible to all users and comply with disability discrimination laws. This contrast checker lets for news & media designers verify foreground and background colour combinations against AA and AAA thresholds, simulate colour blindness, and get one-click fix suggestions to ensure for news & media pages are readable and legally compliant.
News websites operate under unique SEO conditions where speed of indexation, Google News inclusion, and topical freshness signals are paramount. News SEO requires rapid publication workflows, proper NewsArticle schema implementation, and adherence to Google News technical policies. Sites must also manage evergreen content alongside breaking news while avoiding cannibalisation across articles covering evolving stories.
for News & Media tips
- Implement NewsArticle schema with datePublished, dateModified, and author details on every article to qualify for Google News and Top Stories carousel.
- Submit your site to Google News Publisher Center and maintain a clean publication record since news-specific indexation is dramatically faster than standard crawling.
- Create evergreen topic hub pages that aggregate coverage of recurring stories to prevent cannibalisation across dozens of related breaking news articles.
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