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Cameleon recolours CNN in Safari with one of five skins, three dark and two light, and changes nothing but colour. In CNN's own colours, 29 of the 297 pieces of text measured are under WCAG AA contrast; under each of the five skins, every one of them passes.

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CNN in each skin

CNN's page in its own colours
29 of 297 pieces of text are under WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 15.67:1.
CNN's page recoloured by Cameleon's Midnight skin
All 297 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 7.24:1.
CNN's page recoloured by Cameleon's Dusk skin
All 297 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 11.30:1.
CNN's page recoloured by Cameleon's Legacy skin
All 297 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 8.96:1.
CNN's page recoloured by Cameleon's Sunset skin
All 297 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 9.03:1.
CNN's page recoloured by Cameleon's Yardage Book skin
All 297 pieces of text clear WCAG AA contrast. Median contrast 5.70:1.

Captured and measured 3 November 2026 with Cameleon's own engine, on the real page. How it was measured.

What CNN offers by itself

With the Mac set to dark appearance, the page stayed light.

What Cameleon does on CNN

  • CNN stays light when your Mac is dark, so the skin you set for dark appearance recolours it.
  • When your Mac is light, CNN keeps its own colours unless you set a skin for light appearance, or choose one for CNN.
  • A light skin, Sunset or Yardage Book, always goes ahead on CNN, dark or not.
  • Choose a skin on CNN and it is remembered for CNN; other sites keep theirs.
  • Colour only: the layout, the text and the links stay as CNN made them.

The contrast, before and after

ColoursText under WCAG AAMedian contrast
CNN's own29 of 29715.67:1
Midnight0 of 2977.24:1
Dusk0 of 29711.30:1
Legacy0 of 2978.96:1
Sunset0 of 2979.03:1
Yardage Book0 of 2975.70:1

Measured 3 November 2026 on the page shown, a public one read without signing in, with Cameleon's own engine. Its cookie-consent dialog was taken off first, as it is once a reader answers it. A further 1 piece of text sit on a background image rather than a colour, which is painted over the colour beneath it, so it is counted as not measurable rather than scored. WCAG AA is 4.5:1 for text and 3:1 for large text. How it was measured, and what it cannot fix.

CNN belongs to its owner, who has nothing to do with Cameleon. The captures show its public page, to show the colours.

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