Karl Stolley

Depending on what operating system is being used, high contrast mode can make a wide variety of changes. It can reduce the visual complexity of the screen, force high contrast colors between text and backgrounds, apply filters to the screen, and more. Doing this all automatically and in a way that works for every application and website is hard.

Really interesting write up of how this is implemented in Firefox. Unfortunate that macOS does not at present expose contrast preferences set at the system level to running applications.

prefers-contrast is currently part of the Media Queries Level 5 working draft at the W3C.