- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 11:45:17 -0600
- To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Cc: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
Hi Patrick and all, >From what I have gathered I "think" the main issue is that users can't change font family, spacing, etc in a particular extension (some folks on the LVTF rely on the stylish extension) whenever authors use !important on HTML elements. It seems stylish applies its styles at document level (check my test case [1]). Users CAN change them in Safari and IE. However, IE is on the way out. I'm not sure how many people with low vision use Safari. It seems browsers vendors are phasing out support for user style sheets. Alastair is working on an extension that will hopefully provide the needed functionality. My question is what is within the scope of the WCAG WG SCs to help people with low vision adjust spacing, fonts, etc? Wayne's text says "The user can change the font family down to the element level..." Would this mean authors can't use !important on HTML elements because the stylish extension applies its CSS at document level? If so, that could be a failure technique. Kindest Regards, Laura [1] http://www.d.umn.edu/~lcarlson/wcagwg/tests/user_styles/important_spacing.html On 1/20/17, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote: > On 20/01/2017 14:21, David MacDonald wrote: >> So in layman's terms I think what the SC is saying is "Don't get in the >> way of user style sheets by sticking "!important" on classes of your >> style sheets." > > I think Alastair already tackled this, but to be clear: no, user agents > that implement proper user stylesheets (rather than simply trying to > append styles to the document, like certain extensions do) will still > override things even if marked as !important. Authors are following the > correct and expected CSS standard here, it's the extensions/user agents > that need to follow this as well. > > P > -- > Patrick H. Lauke > > www.splintered.co.uk | https://github.com/patrickhlauke > http://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | http://redux.deviantart.com > twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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