Re: Sizing SCs - post informal meeting

+1. Thank you, Alastair!

Kindest Regards,
Laura

On 10/6/16, Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks for sharing Alistair. It looks good!
>
> Katie Haritos-Shea
> 703-371-5545
>
> On Oct 6, 2016 7:10 PM, "Alastair Campbell" <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> Good discussion today, and I'd like to summarise some of it with updates
>> &
>> proposals.
>>
>> As discussed I have merged the wording that Jason, David and I worked on
>> with "Size of all content". I suggest that we call it "Resize content" to
>> align with and expand on "Resize text":
>> https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vision-a11y-tf/wiki/Size_of_all_elements
>>
>> So the sizing related SCs would be:
>> 1.4.4 Resize text (the current 200% one with no restriction on horizontal
>> scrolling)
>> 1.4.x Resize content (up to 400% without horizontal scrolling)
>> 1.4.x Reflow to single column
>>
>> I think they work well together, you effectively have an SC for making
>> sure zoom works without scrolling, a fall back for when that doesn't
>> apply,
>> and the re-flow allows for more extreme text-sizes.
>>
>> I'm not sure that proposed "Text size" SC adds much though, the wording
>> "up to the user agent maximum without loss of content and functionality"
>> isn't possible for authors to achieve. It can be achieved with user-agent
>> changes such as removing styles, but then if you've removed author styles
>> it isn't something the author controls. The reflow SC covers that
>> scenario,
>> where you need a meaningful & understandable order of content.
>>
>> I will read (and re-read) Wayne's Reflow SC, I understand what it's aimed
>> to acheive, and it is very thorough,
>>
>


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Laura L. Carlson

Received on Friday, 7 October 2016 13:53:18 UTC