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Agreed. One thing that a lot of people miss when attempting to comply with WCAG contrast guidelines is that disabled controls are specifically exempt.

With good reason, IMO — too much contrast and it’s not clear that an element is disabled.



And yet younguns with good eyes and no color blindness will be able to read the text, and others won’t.

If you let a designer put grey on grey once, they’ll do it 10,000,000 times.




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