- From: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:01:24 +0000
- To: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
- CC: "public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org" <public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org>
David wrote: “Google is recommending 48px, Apple 44px... our recommendation is 48px. I doubt that will get push back...” Playing devil’s advocate a little, but can you imagine doing accessibility audits in future and failing dozens of sites created by developers used to working to iOS guidelines, due to a difference of 4px? We use WCAG + Apple’s guidelines as the basis for testing iOS apps, so I’d rather they aligned than have to explain the difference. We have plenty of explaining to do anyway, but this aspect seems so trivial that we would probably end up ignoring the difference and going with Apple’s guidelines. Developers could (quite rightly) say that Apple has a good track record of accessibility on iOS, why do they need to re-layout their app/site for a 4px difference? Is there a good justification for 48 over 44px? Does that make a difference in practical use? The other way around (e.g. with Android developers) is fine, 48px is bigger than 44px so going by the platform guidelines means a pass. Cheers, -Alastair
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