- From: Wendy Reid via GitHub <sysbot+gh@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:54:31 +0000
- To: public-i18n-archive@w3.org
wareid has just created a new issue for https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss: == Text appearance, accessibility, and internationalization == Hello i18n! The AGWG subgroup focusing on Visual Appearance was having a discussion around some of the requirements relating to text appearance and we ran into a question that I am hoping you might have the data or resources to help us with. In our discussions on Text Appearance and accessibility, much of the discussion relates to what recommendations and standards we should suggest to ensure readability and flexibility for text presentation. This includes text layout features like margins, line spacing, word spacing, justification, hyphenation, line breaks, capitalization, and so on. We realized during this discussion that we don't have enough information about how some of the properties mentioned may differ or have nuance in different languages or scripts. We did discuss how this particular area was not addressed fully in WCAG 2, and how we can make sure we avoid that in future. We were wondering if i18n has any resources or insight on the common properties of different language groups/scripts, or cases where languages/scripts have specific properties where changing text layout may impact readability/understandability of text. Just to provide an example in case my explanation isn't clear enough, what we are hoping to determine is whether we might need to provide text appearance guidelines that are more tailored to specific language groups/scripts instead of prescribing broad guidelines for all languages. In [WCAG 2.2 for 1.4.12 Text Spacing](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/quickref/#text-spacing) we say this currently for all languages (with exceptions for languages that may not have one or more of these properties): - Line height (line spacing) to at least 1.5 times the font size; - Spacing following paragraphs to at least 2 times the font size; - Letter spacing (tracking) to at least 0.12 times the font size; - Word spacing to at least 0.16 times the font size. Our concern is that recommendations like the above may not be helpful in all languages, or even detrimental. We'd appreciate your expertise in determining how we might best approach this! Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/i18n-discuss/issues/46 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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