Re: text scaling How To Meet pages

I've just noticed that we did not include the line about working from the
assumption that the specified font size is readable to start with - did we
intend to do this?

If not a start might be: "Working from the assumption that the author has
specified a readable size font size, the group feels that ..."
http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Meet_Success_Criterion_1.4.5

http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Meet_Success_Criterion_1.4.6



On 1/31/07, Makoto Ueki < makoto.ueki@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Late regrets.  I couldn't make it this morning.....
>
> I agree with Sorcha that the readers still might ask a question why
> 200%, not 175% or 190%. It'll be much better that we could explain the
> rationale in more detail.
>
> - Makoto
>
> 2007/1/31, Sorcha Moore < sorcha@segala.com>:
> >
> > The text scaling How To Meet pages look great, except that I think it
> lacks a
> > rational behind the 200% measurement - I do think this will be commented
> and
> > queried.  Forgive me if this has already been explained and I am not
> "getting"
> > it but why not 175% or 190%?  On what information did we base 200% - if
> > designers are having problems maintaining their design with font resized
> to
> > 200% but not 180% they should have some basis/motivation for going for
> 200% not
> > just because the WCAG picked 200%.
> > Also, does 200% mean double? So, is that double the height and width of
> the
> > font? I hate to be the devils advocate but someone is going to ask in
> the next
> > round of comments, what if someone starts off with a really small font
> and
> > scales it up 200% - it still may not be accessible...
> >
> >
> >
> > Quoting Loretta Guarino Reid < lorettaguarino@google.com>:
> >
> > >
> > > 18:00 UTC
> > > 10:00 AM Palo Alto
> > > 1:00 PM Boston
> > > 6:00 PM England, Ireland
> > > 3:00 AM (Jan 31) Japan
> > > Bridge: +1.617.761.6200 Passcode 92248#
> > >
> > > irc.w3.org port 6665 #wcag-teamb
> > >
> > > Agenda:
> > > 1. Review text scaling How To Meet pages for survey
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Meet_Success_Criterion_1.4.5
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://trace.wisc.edu/wcag_wiki/index.php?title=How_to_Meet_Success_Criterion_1.4.6
> > > (Has anyone been able to find any relevant resources?)
> > >
> > > 2. Review Team B proposals for survey
> > >
> > http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/search_results.php?terms=[TEAMB]&status=proposal
>
> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/search_results.php?terms=%5BTEAMB%5D&status=proposal>
> > >
> > > 3. Review some conformance proposals
> > >
> > >
> > http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/search_results.php?terms=[confAAA]
>
> <http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/search_results.php?terms=%5BconfAAA%5D>
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/search_results.php?terms=[confAggr]<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/search_results.php?terms=%5BconfAggr%5D>
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/search_results.php?terms=[confLevels]<http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/WCAG20/issue-tracking/search_results.php?terms=%5BconfLevels%5D>
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
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