Just browsing through WCAG2.0 and came across this: 1.4.7 Resize and Wrap: Visually rendered text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent and down to 50 percent without loss of content or functionality ***and in a way that does not require the user to scroll horizontally***. (Level AAA) (My asterisks added for emphasis). Hmmm. Some serious problems with this. 1) Given that there is no support for soft hyphens aas far as I am aware, this is problematic as a long word in a columnar layout could easily fail this. This may be even worse in languages where long words are a common occurrence. In a layout context, it is saying "a word may not be more than half the width of a column" 2) The need for horizontal scrolling depends on the pixel-width of the viewport. This is not under the designer's control. 3) This checkpoint champions liquid design over elastic design as more accessible. Firstly I disagree (liquid designs break), secondly I think this is something a lot of experienced developers would disagree with. Can we discuss this as an Any Other Business?Received on Thursday, 19 July 2007 13:26:22 UTC
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