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ARC • APCA Readability Criterion — a set of web-standard guidelines for text and non-text for use with the APCA contrast algorithm. Latest published version at this link:

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ARC • APCA Readability Criterion

APCA Guidelines for Readable Design

ARC is a set of guidelines & standards for visual content for use with the APCA contrast algorithm for creating accessible and readable designs of content.

This repo is used for staging and testing the content prior to publishing on the live site. The current published draft version is:

While officially, ARC stands for "APCA Readability Criterion", it could easily mean one of the following:

  • Accessible, Readable Content
  • APCA: Reading's Clever
  • APCA Readability Contrast
  • Almond Reading Cookies
  • Apkah the Reading Cow

Apkah the Happy Reading Cow

The light yellow headline in a fun curvy font says Apkah the happy read cow and underneath is a cute 3-D cartoonish cow with thick black frame glasses reading a book entitled MOO! The light yellow headline in a fun angled font says Apkah the happy read cow and underneath is a cute 3-D cartoonish cow with thick black frame glasses reading a book entitled MOO


Staging Draft