- From: Erich Manser <emanser@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 17:18:16 -0500
- To: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-low-vision-a11y-tf <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <OF17B77F4A.D92C5240-ON852580A8.007A6E87-852580A8.007A85A5@notes.na.collabserv.c>
32 Vassar Street is right nearby, and I can recruit others!
Erich Manser
IBM
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From: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
To: public-low-vision-a11y-tf <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
Date: 01/14/2017 05:02 PM
Subject: We all must attend LVTF next week especially people with low
vision
Things are going terribly for any customization. WCAG WG has a visceral
reaction to making developers do anything to support font-family, spacing
or color. The fundamental attitude is that developers shouldn't have to
lift a finger. If they object to something and we address it. They bring up
something else. I really think they want to say Screen Magnifications
Systems are all we need, and be done with it.
I think we should address it as follows. Right now the claim is that the
ability to change spacing already exists for HTML, so it shouldn't be an
SC. The same argument will be used for font-family. I say we modify our SCs
to be element level access to spacing, font-family and color. The problem
is easily solvable with ARIA. It is not without. We don't have to look far
at all for a failure. The W3C Wiki fails element level customization.
As soon as I'm done with this I will write up font-family with an element
level orientation.
Next I think a test should be to place a style element at the end of the
author's <head> that resets the spacing, font-family or color
use !important. This will be an author level !important that will be broken
by a style at the element level with !important. That will ensure that a
mechanism exists, namely stylish.
If our efforts fail, I think we need to work on putting as many people with
low vision as we can on the steps of
W3C MIT CSAIL
32 Vassar Street
Building 32-G528
Cambridge, MA 02139-4307
To protest unfair treatment.
Wayne
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