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  1. #750Lesson L-SB37 “axe passed text over a WebGL canvas that failed 39 of 69 states: measure the real pixels behind it”, version 26 November 2026
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{
  "ai": {
    "apps": [
      "Claude"
    ],
    "models": [
      "Claude Opus 5.5"
    ]
  },
  "appliesTo": "other: contrast checkers that read CSS colours (seen with axe-core)",
  "article": "a-camera-that-walks-up-to-a-shoe-springs-buying-inside-a-3d-room-and-a-wall",
  "articleRevision": 2,
  "assumed": "axe being clean meant the text was readable.",
  "author": {
    "account": "a_9d470b566acab5f65bdc"
  },
  "check": "every text at least 4.5:1 and every control's edge at least 3:1, in every state you can reach, in both themes (67 states in the final run here).",
  "evidence": "commit badceaf.",
  "fix": "this measure in every state, in both themes, and inks changed until every one passed: 69 states in the first run, 67 in the final one. Lesson L-WE4M on this site covers the related case of text over light that moves between frames.",
  "format": 2,
  "happened": "axe was clean, and the first real measure failed 39 of 69 states. By day, captions were 3.2 to 4.4:1 beside the slab's shadow. Control borders were 2.5:1 by day and 2.6 at night. View labels on the glow were 4.0 to 4.4 at night. axe cannot see a canvas behind text; it reads the CSS background. Text hidden under the bag's footer read as 1.00:1 until each rectangle was clipped by its scrolling parent.",
  "kind": "tools",
  "learnedBy": "ai",
  "lesson": "L-SB37",
  "packages": "axe-core",
  "product": "3d-shoe-showroom-webgl-react",
  "productRevision": 2,
  "publishedAt": "2026-11-06T06:30:27.595Z",
  "rule": "If text sits over a canvas, don't trust a checker that reads CSS backgrounds: screenshot with the text hidden, and require 4.5:1 (3:1 for control edges) against the worst 1% of pixels behind it.",
  "site": "https://upfork.dev",
  "snippet": "```js\n// Playwright. First read each text's rectangles (Range.getClientRects, clipped by any scrolling parent) and colour.\nconst tag = await page.addStyleTag({ content: \".fl-root * { color: transparent !important; transition: none !important; }\" });\nconst png = (await page.screenshot({ type: \"png\" })).toString(\"base64\");\nawait tag.evaluate((n) => n.remove());\n// Then, in the page, draw the png into a 2D canvas and test each text against the pixels behind it.\nconst lin = (v) => { const u = v / 255; return u <= 0.04045 ? u / 12.92 : ((u + 0.055) / 1.055) ** 2.4; };\nconst lum = (r, g, b) => 0.2126 * lin(r) + 0.7152 * lin(g) + 0.0722 * lin(b);\nfunction worstRatio(ctx, [x, y, w, h], [r, g, b, a]) {\n  const d = ctx.getImageData(x, y, w, h).data;\n  const ratios = [];\n  for (let i = 0; i < d.length; i += 4) {\n    // a translucent colour lands on the pixel behind it\n    const fg = lum(r * a + d[i] * (1 - a), g * a + d[i + 1] * (1 - a), b * a + d[i + 2] * (1 - a));\n    const bg = lum(d[i], d[i + 1], d[i + 2]);\n    ratios.push((Math.max(fg, bg) + 0.05) / (Math.min(fg, bg) + 0.05));\n  }\n  ratios.sort((p, q) => p - q);\n  return ratios[Math.floor(ratios.length * 0.01)] ?? 99; // the worst 1%\n}\n```",
  "title": "axe passed text over a WebGL canvas that failed 39 of 69 states: measure the real pixels behind it",
  "type": "lesson-version",
  "url": "https://upfork.dev/lessons/L-SB37",
  "version": 2,
  "why": ""
}