Re: Horizontal Scrolling for Reading Text: Why it doesn't work. from Glenda Sims on 2017-02-01 (public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org from February 2017)

From: Glenda Sims <glenda.sims@deque.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 17:50:10 -0600
To: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
Cc: W3C WAI ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, public-low-vision-a11y-tf <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>, Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>, Joshue O Connor <josh@interaccess.ie>, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
Message-ID: <CAH2ngES3RviBmeYQD80MjcaeN8QCLzw3QBH2=6+HTkdQzP0s1Q@mail.gmail.com>

Wayne,

I'm deeply grateful for your research on this!  I always knew it was a
pain, but I did not truly understand how bad it was until I experienced it
myself.  I want the world to understand this now!

G

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On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:01 PM, Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com> wrote:

> If you would want to understand why horizontal scrolling is really not the
> following gives a quantitative explanation. Nobody has ever done this
> analysis before.
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> http://nosetothepage.org/Fitz/2dScroll.html
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> You cannot make an informed judgement of Resize Content and Linearize
> without considering this proof of extreme user need. Two dimensional
> scrolling of blocks of text is not just annoying it is a profound
> disruption of the reading process.
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> Wayne
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