Sizing SCs - post informal meeting

Hi everyone,

Good discussion today, and I'd like to summarise some of it with updates & proposals.

As discussed I have merged the wording that Jason, David and I worked on with "Size of all content". I suggest that we call it "Resize content" to align with and expand on "Resize text":
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vision-a11y-tf/wiki/Size_of_all_elements

So the sizing related SCs would be:
1.4.4 Resize text (the current 200% one with no restriction on horizontal scrolling)
1.4.x Resize content (up to 400% without horizontal scrolling)
1.4.x Reflow to single column

I think they work well together, you effectively have an SC for making sure zoom works without scrolling, a fall back for when that doesn't apply, and the re-flow allows for more extreme text-sizes. 

I'm not sure that proposed "Text size" SC adds much though, the wording "up to the user agent maximum without loss of content and functionality" isn't possible for authors to achieve. It can be achieved with user-agent changes such as removing styles, but then if you've removed author styles it isn't something the author controls. The reflow SC covers that scenario, where you need a meaningful & understandable order of content.

I will read (and re-read) Wayne's Reflow SC, I understand what it's aimed to acheive, and it is very thorough,

Received on Thursday, 6 October 2016 23:10:01 UTC