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[css-color-adjust-1] Forced colors mode usage beyond high contrast mode #6664

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@beverloo

https://www.w3.org/TR/css-color-adjust-1/#forced-colors-mode
https://www.w3.org/TR/mediaqueries-5/#forced-colors

[css-mediaqueries-5] defines a new forced-colors media query, that can be set to active when "forced colors mode" is active. This is defined as:

Forced colors mode is an accessibility feature intended to increase the readability of text through color contrast. [...] Users can also customize their own themes, for example to provide low contrast or hue contrast.

Chrome has an experimental feature (available in chrome://flags) to apply a generated Dark Mode to Web Contents that don't provide one themselves. It strikes me that allowing developers to detect this as follows would be very appropriate:

@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) and (forced-colors: active) {}

I'd like to ask whether it would be appropriate to scope up this definition?

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