Small java library containing some helper methods to work with color and accessibility (A11Y). The primary goal for this library was to provide a method to return a color which is well readable on a given background color. Or, given a text-color, find a "good" background-color.
The first algorithm implemented is based on a W3C recommendation. As this recommendation was based on the websafe color palette, the results are not always satisfactory.
After a bit of research, I found two alternative algorithms based on Luminosity and Luminosity contrast. LuminosityContrast seemed to yield the most acceptable results, so this one is implemented by default.
There is also a method to determine whether a color combination is readable or not. Using this method you can specify the difference algorithm and adapt the colors appropriately.
Many parameters are still hardcoded and could be made accessible externally. But so far I did not yet have the need to change these values dynamically, so I did not implement them as such.
import lu.albert.colorutils.ColorA11Y;
Color textColor = ColorA11Y.getReadableComplement(
myTextComponent.getBackground());
myTextComponent.setForeground(textColor);