Re: Issue 78 SC text (was Re: Post-Minutes update)

> Wayne would like Verdana removed from the SC text and put into the testing section or a failure technique.
    
That is where we started, but Gregg (at least) said if it can’t be tested true/false from the SC text, it won’t meet the SC criteria. You can flesh things out in the understanding doc, but the SC needs to be a true/false statement.


> Shawn is concerned about including the note and would like it removed

I agree, with VIP reader around we don’t have to worry about cross technology support.
I understand that reader won’t open all PDFs, but neither will Acrobat reflow all PDFs, and I guess for the same reason?
It is possible to author a document that can open in VIP, that should be enough.


> Jim suggested removing the word "webpage" to take the "technology" out.
   
Webpage is the basic unit of WCAG testing, it is listing under ‘important terms’ at the top!
https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#new-terms 
 
> Wayne suggested taking the hyphens out of line-height, letter-spacing and word-spacing.
    
I guess that reduces the direct reference to CSS, which is probably a good thing?


> No loss of content or functionality is caused by overriding:
> 
> 1. font family, or
> 2. foreground and background to a single different foreground color and a single different background color, or
> 3. line height of all text to 1.5, letter spacing to 0.12em, and word spacing to 0.16em.
  
If my team tests a page with Verdana and black & white, and another team tests the same page with “Latin Wide” (or some other very differently sized font) and purple and green, we will get different results. 

Not due to subjectivity, but objectively different results.

Given where these SCs are used (including for lawsuits), I think Gregg is right to say we need normative testability.

If there were some way to state the requirement without a specific font/color/size value and still have it be testable, that would be great. But it has to be a content requirement, not a user-requirement, and that means specific values.

Cheers,

-Alastair

Received on Friday, 10 February 2017 16:33:48 UTC