Re: Best place for revised Pointer Target Spacing

As I think Kathy has done a lot of work here and has a clear view on this
let's discuss this and ask her about the history and research.

Op wo 9 sep. 2020 om 15:22 schreef Detlev Fischer <
detlev.fischer@testkreis.de>:

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> Am 09.09.2020 um 15:04 schrieb jake abma:
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> Just a small reminder that the intent was not to have another SC text with
> a smaller target size, but to have a least a 8 CSS px distance between
> adjacent targets (morphed into the current text)
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> Hi Jake,
> I thought working with a smaller size was what had emerged as an
> alternative approach favoured by some in the last WG telco - but of course
> am open to other approaches. Setting a lower target size for an AA
> requirement may be easier to understand, and it would avoid the detrimental
> approach of reducing target size in order compress groups pf targets (as
> would probably also happen if we set 8px as minuimum distance).
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> The other potential negative impact of an 8px distance requirement would
> be the incentive to create targets with gaps rather than including padding
> (of icons or text links)  in the active target area, which at least for
> mouse users would be better than gaps (I guess the tap heuristics make this
> less of a problem under mobile OSs).
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> Best,
> Detlev
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> Cheers!
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> Op wo 9 sep. 2020 om 14:53 schreef Detlev Fischer <
> detlev.fischer@testkreis.de>:
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>> Hi ALastair,
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>> I wondered whether it would help to create an issue for the reset of
>> Pointer Target Spacing - or what would you suggest is the best approach?
>> My personal hunch is that it might be easiest to start from the
>> normative text of our AAA SC Target size, just with a smaller target
>> value like 26 x 26px. That woud seem most consistent. This could easily
>> done - but I guess just doing that as a pull request on the SC text
>> would leapfrog the discussion we will likley want to have before that?
>> CC'ing Mobile a11y TF...
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>> Best,
>> Detlev
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