Fwd: Horizontal Scrolling for Reading Text: Why it doesn't work.

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From: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 5:01 PM
Subject: Horizontal Scrolling for Reading Text: Why it doesn't work.
To: W3C WAI ig <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, public-low-vision-a11y-tf <
public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>, Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>, Joshue O
Connor <josh@interaccess.ie>, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>


If you would want to understand why horizontal scrolling is really not the
following gives a quantitative explanation. Nobody has ever done this
analysis before.

http://nosetothepage.org/Fitz/2dScroll.html

You cannot make an informed judgement of Resize Content and Linearize
without considering this proof of extreme user need. Two dimensional
scrolling of blocks of text is not just annoying it is a profound
disruption of the reading process.

Wayne

Wayne







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