Pointer Contrast Sufficient

Test Procedure from the W3C Draft

Quoted from the provision's informative document, informative/guidelines/interactive-components/pointer-focus-appearance/pointer-contrast-sufficient.md. It is the group's own procedure, not an editorial testing guide.

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• #207 Color and Contrast For Text & Non-Text Outcomes open 0 comments · updated 2026-05-01
• #270 Requirements: Non-text Contrast open 0 comments · updated 2026-04-02
• #775 Consider unbundling “Pointer contrast sufficient” so pointer size gets its own provision open 0 comments · updated 2026-07-24

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W3C Raw Source Text

Verbatim from guidelines/groups/interactive-components/pointer-focus-appearance/pointer-contrast-sufficient.md · informative document: informative/guidelines/interactive-components/pointer-focus-appearance/pointer-contrast-sufficient.md

The default pointer meets the @@[non-text-contrast] requirement, and is at least as large as the platform default.

:::applies-when
* the pointer indicator appearance can be adjusted from the platform default.
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:::note
There can be multiple types of pointer indicator. For example, arrow, hand, caret. The size requirement applies to whichever type of indicator would be the default for that scenario.
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