Proposal for 1.4 changes

Greg and I had some time on the call today, and decided to work on 1.4, 
pulling together notes from the meeting of 8 May into a proposal that 
the working group could look at.

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1.4.1
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==Existing
1.4.1 Text Scale, Color, Font (Globally): The user can globally set all 
of the following characteristics of visually rendered text content: 
(Level A)
* Text scale with preserved size distinctions (e.g. keeping headings 
proportional to main font)
* Text color and background color, choosing from all platform color options
* Font family, choosing from all installed fonts

==Proposed
- change handle to Basic text formatting (Globally)
- add bullet

1.4.1 Basic text formatting (Globally): The user can globally set all of 
the following characteristics of visually rendered text content: (Level A)

* Text scale with preserved size distinctions (e.g. keeping headings 
proportional to main font)
* Text color and background color, choosing from all platform color options
* Font family, choosing from all installed fonts
* Line spacing, choosing from a range with at least three values

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1.4.2
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== Existing
1.4.2 Text Size, Color and Font (by Element): The user can set all of 
the following characteristics of visually rendered text content for text 
element types including at least headings, input fields, and links: 
(Level AA)
* Text size or scale
* Text color and background color, choosing from all platform color options
* Font family, choosing from all platform fonts
* Text style (underline, italic, bold)

==Proposed
- change handle to Basic text formatting (by Element)
- add bullet

1.4.2 Text Size, Color and Font (by Element): The user can set all of 
the following characteristics of visually rendered text content for text 
element types including at least headings, input fields, and links: 
(Level AA)
* Text size or scale
* Text color and background color, choosing from all platform color options
* Font family, choosing from all platform fonts
* Line spacing, choosing from a range with at least three values
* Text style (underline, italic, bold)

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1.4.3
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==Existing
1.4.3 Text Spacing and Style (Globally): The user can globally set all 
of the following characteristics of visually rendered blocks of text: 
(Level AA)
* Line spacing of at least 1.0, 1.3, 1.5, and 2.0 times the font height
* Character spacing of at least 0.01, 0.03, 0.06, 0.09 times the base 
character width
* Word spacing of at least 0.01, 0.03, 0.06, 0.09 times the base 
character width
* Text style (underline, italic, bold)
* Justification (left, right, or full)

==Proposed
- change handle to Text Blocks
- remove bullets
- move Margins from 1.4.5 to 1.4.3 and rephrase

1.4.3 Text Blocks (Globally): The user can globally set all of the 
following characteristics of visually rendered blocks of text: (Level AA)

* Character spacing, choosing from a range with at least five values
* Justification (left, right, or full)
* Margins around blocks of text

UAWG Note: Probably need definition of Blocks of text
UAWG Note: add Wayne's recommendation of the range (MIN 0.02 to MAX 0.1 
of the base character width) to Implementing Intent section.

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1.4.4
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No change

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1.4.5
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==Existing
1.4.5 Text Style, Margins, Borders (by Element): The user can set all of 
the following characteristics of visually rendered text content for main 
text and for text element types including at least headings, input 
fields and links: (Level AAA)
* Text style (underline, italic, bold)
* Margins (for example, space above headings, indentation of lists)
* Borders

==Proposed
- change order of 1.4.5 and 1.4.6 so (Globally) is first for consistency
- remove bullet for margins
- change handle to Advanced text formatting (by Element)

1.4.6 Advanced text formatting (by Element): The user can set all of the 
following characteristics of visually rendered text content for main 
text and for text element types including at least headings, input 
fields and links: (Level AAA)
* Text style (underline, italic, bold)
* Borders

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1.4.6
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==Existing
1.4.6 Spacing, Capitalization and Hyphenation (Globally): The user can 
globally set all of the following characteristics of visually rendered 
blocks of text: (Level AAA)
* Line spacing between 0.7 and 3.0 times the font height, at increments 
of 0.10
* Capitalization (overriding upper case and small caps style)
* Word-breaking properties (auto-hyphenation)
* Margins
* Borders

==Proposed
- change handle to Advanced text formatting (Globally)
- move before the present 1.4.5
- remove bullets for line spacing and margins
- add bullet for text style

1.4.6 Spacing, Capitalization and Hyphenation (Globally): The user can 
globally set all of the following characteristics of visually rendered 
blocks of text: (Level AAA)
* Text style (underline, italic, bold)
* Capitalization (overriding upper case and small caps style)
* Word-breaking properties (auto-hyphenation)
* Borders

Received on Thursday, 26 June 2014 21:04:49 UTC