APCA for W3 & WCAG

apca-w3

The APCA version in this repositiory is licensed to the W3/AGWG per the collaborative agreement.

Advanced Perceptual Contrast Algorithm

Current Version: 0.0.98G-4g-w3-betafish

APCA is a contrast assessment method for predicting the perceived contrast between sRGB colors on a computer monitor. It has been developed as an assessment method for W3 Silver/WCAG3 accessibility standards relating to content for computer displays and mobile devices, with a focus on readability and understandability.

QuickStart

    import { APCAcontrast, sRGBtoY } from 'apca-w3';

Usage:

First color must be text, second color must be the background.

    let contrastLc = APCAcontrast( sRGBtoY( textColor ), sRGBtoY( backgroundColor ) );

The following are the available input types for sRGBtoY(), HSL is not implemented at the moment. All are automatically recognized:

INPUT as STRINGS:

No Alpha
- '#abc' or 'abc' (interpreted as 'aabbcc')
- '#abcdef' or 'abcdef' (hash is ignored)
- 'rgb(123, 45, 67)'
- 'aquamarine' or 'magenta' (full CSS4 named colors list)
With Alpha (alpha is NOT presently calculated, and assumed as fully opaque)
- '#abcf' or 'abcf' (interpreted as 'aabbccff')
- '#123456ff' or '123456ff' (hash is ignored)
- 'rgba(123, 45, 67,255)'

INPUT as NUMBER:

As hex
- 0xabcdef
As integer
- 11259375

No alpha parsing for numbers in part as there are big and little endian issues that need to be resolved.

UPCOMING POTENTIALLY BREAKING CHANGE:

The parsing will be moved to a separate module, and sRGBtoY will then take an rgba array in the form of rgba = [0,0,0,255] this is in keeping with comments that the parsing is not always necessarry, and rather raw data is preferred.

We may simply make an alterate version of sRGBtoY() such as sRGBarrY() for the array only version. Please weigh in on the issue in discussions Myndex/SAPC-APCA#33

Font Use Lookup Table

Latest Lookup Table: November 17 2021

// APCA FONT LOOKUP TABLE 0.98G-4g-b3
// Font Size and Reference Font Weight

const fontLUT = [
[pt,px,100,200,300,400,500,600,700,800,900],
[7.5,10,'⊘','⊘','⊘','©§™ 60','©§™ 60','©§™ 60','©§™ 60','⊘','⊘'],
[7.88,10.5,'⊘','⊘','⊘','©§™ 60','©§™ 60','©§™ 60','©§™ 60','⊘','⊘'],
[8.25,11,'⊘','⊘','⊘','©§™ 60','©§™ 60','©§™ 60','©§™ 60','⊘','⊘'],
[9,12,'⊘','⊘','©§™ 75','× 90','× 85','× 80','× 75','⊘','⊘'],
[10.5,14,'⊘','⊘','©§™ 75',90,85,80,75,'⊘','⊘'],
[12,16,'⊘','©§™ 75','©§™ 75',75,70,65,60,'× 55','⊘'],
[13.5,18,'⊘','©§™ 75',90,70,65,60,55,'× 50','× 45'],
[15.8,21,'⊘','©§™ 75',85,65,60,55,50,'× 45','× 40'],
[18,24,'⊘',90,75,60,55,50,45,'× 40','× 35'],
[24,32,'⊘',85,70,55,50,45,40,35,30],
[31.5,42,90,75,60,50,45,40,35,30,30],
[42,56,85,70,55,45,40,35,30,30,30],
[54,72,75,60,50,40,35,30,30,30,30],
[72,96,70,55,45,35,30,30,30,30,30],
[96,128,60,45,40,30,30,30,30,30,30]
];

EXTRAS

Additional documentation, including a plain language walkthrough, LaTeX math, and more are available at the SAPC repo.

Current APCA Constants ( 0.0.98G 4g - W3 )

These constants are for use with the web standard sRGB colorspace.

 // 0.98G-4g-W3 constants (W3 license only):
    
  Exponents =  { mainTRC: 2.4,       normBG: 0.56,       normTXT: 0.57,     revTXT: 0.62,     revBG: 0.65, };
  
  ColorSpace = { sRco: 0.2126729,    sGco: 0.7151522,    sBco: 0.0721750, };
    
  Clamps =     { blkThrs: 0.022,     blkClmp: 1.414,     loClip: 0.1,     deltaYmin: 0.0005, };
        
  Scalers =    { scaleBoW: 1.14,     loBoWoffset: 0.027, 
                 scaleWoB: 1.14,     loWoBoffset: 0.027, };

LIVE VERSION

There is a working version with examples and reference material on the APCA site

alexkrolick/apca-w3