RE: CFC - Responses to issues 657, 677, and 685 on text spacing

There are research studies about reading skills and Japanese word spacing - how it helps in some instances and hinders in others due to the different way the 'alphabets' are used http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0042698907002556


The paper offers a comparison with Roman script. In Chinese the same paper mentions that " Liu, Yeh, Wang, and Chang (1974) found that adding spaces did not increase reading speed"

Whichever way one looks at it the amount of text spacing or lack of spacing should be considered in a different way to Roman script and the same could be said for cursive scripts such as Arabic  and other Semitic languages where "not all letters connect, word boundary location becomes an interesting problem, as spacing may separate not only words but also certain characters within a word." http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167865507001110


We know that is not just the font that affects reading but also letter, word and line spacing when it comes to reading difficulties such as dyslexia. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/dys.1527/abstract;jsessionid=05EAC01A23C6222730B122EA2DC876B1.f03t02

Slattery, T. J., Yates, M., & Angele, B. (2016). Interword and interletter spacing effects during reading revisited: Interactions with word and font characteristics. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, 22(4), 406. Available at http://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk  "inter-word space needs to be at least 3.5 times the inter-letter spacing for
reading to proceed efficiently."

Hope this helps
Best wishes
E.A.

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From: Laura Carlson [mailto:laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com]
Sent: 15 January 2018 13:47
To: White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org>
Cc: Makoto Ueki <makoto.ueki@gmail.com>; Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>; WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: RE: CFC - Responses to issues 657, 677, and 685 on text spacing

Hi Andrew, Jason, and all,

If it is okay to proceed with having little to no research specific to text spacing and CJK languages, I am happy if we use Andrew's reply.

If it is not okay, perhaps we could go with something like the exemption version that I previously drafted:
https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/wiki/index.php?title=Draft_Responses_to_Dec_WD_Issues&oldid=9083#657_and_677


Kindest Regards,
Laura


On Jan 15, 2018 7:00 AM, "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org<mailto:jjwhite@ets.org>> wrote:
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The response does not meet the need for the internationalization concerns to be properly considered, reviewed and addressed before entering CR.

-----Original Message-----
From: Makoto UEKI - Infoaxia, Inc. [mailto:makoto.ueki@gmail.com<mailto:makoto.ueki@gmail.com>]
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2018 7:39 AM
To: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com<mailto:akirkpat@adobe.com>>
Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org<mailto:w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>>
Subject: Re: CFC - Responses to issues 657, 677, and 685 on text spacing

-1 for now.

I'm not sure if the Exception addressed especially #657 for the vertical text mode as line/paragraph/letter spacing can be used.

Can we say that 1.5 times for line spacing, 2 times for paragraph spacing, and 0.12 times for letter spacing are valid for text written in vertical mode?

Another question I still have is whether these values are valid for text written in CJK and Arabic or not (Do we have basis?).

I'm looking for the research-based basis for these questions, but I haven't found them yet.

- Makoto



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