Re: Hyphenation from Wayne Dick on 2016-11-10 (public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org from November 2016)

From: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 15:09:45 -0800
To: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
Cc: public-low-vision-a11y-tf <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
Message-ID: <CAJeQ8SCHDri9f2zAAG=exrXcku=0Z+Ct8sGb1yRUGMQf5xf1iw@mail.gmail.com>

Yes Alastair I think that is the case. HTML can do it but not other formats.

My question is this does that put hyphenation off until WCAG Silver,
because content others cannot change it?

Wayne



On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Alastair Campbell
<acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:
> I don’t think Flash or Silverlight supported that kind of text-level styling.
>
> I think for PDF it would need to be done in the source format (e.g. Word, Indesign) for the default view, and I doubt it would work in a re-flow context. Andrew might know that off hand?
>
> -Alastair
>
> On 10/11/2016, 02:44, "Wayne Dick" <wayneedick@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hyphenation is easy with HTML / CSS (the hyphen property) with most
>     browsers, but I can't find how to  do it with another technology like
>     pdf, or silverlight.
>
>     Any examples?
>
>     Wayne
>
>
>

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