Sometimes it won't be enough to make colors darker or lighter for Increase Contrast. As always, it is important to do some testing. The same colors might be used with different backgrounds or text colors and the contrast could actually get worse.
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The most straightforward way for making sure your colors work well in all appearances (dark, light, increase contrast, and all the combinations) is to use the provided system colors. Check the background and label semantic colors too. All the info in the Color section of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/color
Too much data can overwhelm users. Very little is an incomplete experience. It is hard to find a balance on verbosity and the users may have different preferences. To help with this issue, the AXCustomContent APIs let you mark data as optional.
Sometimes your UI will just not scale for large text sizes. Simple changes, for large sizes, like disposing elements vertically instead of horizontally, reducing the number of columns, and allowing more lines of text, can do the trick most times.
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