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Your first question has been answered by user user1757436.
I'd like to add something to your second question. First of all, your page is all good and designed nicely. Secondly, contrast is definitely a very important aspekt of web design.
Should you worry about the results from the test of checkmycolours.com?
a, checkmycolours.com
There are many errors ...
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CheckMyColours.com uses the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) contrast tests.
The validity of the tests is something to bring up with WCAG rather than checkmycolours.com.
I am unaware of the WCAG providing the research supporting their contrast ratio standards. However, my experience with those standards is that they are fairly lax. I've ...
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I would describe the options in terms of "quality", with technical footnotes. This teaches the user at a high level what a phrase like 16 bit vs 32 bit means. It also provides the information for more technically minded users to get exactly what they want.
Color Example:
Low Quality (8 bit)
Medium Quality (16 bit)
High Quality (32 bit)
Audio Example:
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The Apple terminology dates back to a time when the options in the list were:
Black & White
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16
256
Later, it changed to:
256
Thousands
Millions
The amount of millions doesn't matter for two reasons:
The number is really a relative measure of size and is presented in sequence with others like it. "Millions of colours" in isolation isn't ...
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I think the Apple terminology "millions of colors" is a marketing term used to communicate sales information and it doesn't have to be precise, and being understood by a broad audience is more important than being truly informative. If you are going to use a term in a more technical context "24 bit color" is more accurate, hence better in this context. ...
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Do remember your product do not live by itself but within a system with other products. Users are rarely going to focus only on your product but they are going to buy it, use it and compare it relatively to other products.
For transparency reasons you want your product to be comparable with its competitors, therefore you want to use the same referential.
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A lot depends on your audience and your product, but in general the term "Millions of colours" isn't particularly helpful. Do you mean 2 million or 786 million?
If you're selling a new DSLR camera, the common jargon is 12-bit, 14-bit, etc. and not the number of colours - so that is what you should stick to.
If you're talking about software (especially ...
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Text opacity is a weird thing. We (UX and visual designers) love to do it because it reduces the "noise" on the page and lets us focus the user's attention on what we want. Thing is, it requires the user to physically move their mouse over the object they are interested in reading. This is true of blinds, rollovers, and any other type of reveal. You're ...
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Like 3nafish pointed out, the testimonial should be highlighted rather than de-emphasized.
But, if you are bound by someone/thing to keep it de-emphasized, you can use animation to suggest the user that the opacity of the testimonial changes. When the page loads, keep the testimonial highlighted for a couple seconds and then let it fade it, this should at ...
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This may be a case of tailoring your content and page to show the correct visual hierarchy.
If having a testimonial isn’t the most important piece of content on the page and not what you want the user to focus on, you might consider moving it to the right column with the other content and putting it at the bottom.
You will also want to give it the least ...
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I think you are trying to make two different design strategy work together, and it might not give you the best user experience. If the intent is to not let testimonials obstruct the main content, then just have a link that you can click on and have the content pop up. Otherwise, make the testimonials clear but maybe use progressive disclosure to just show ...
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