Re: Length of line

Hi everyone, 

Is it just me that got a couple of email from about 2.5 weeks ago? Perhaps that’s why this re-surfaced?

Anyway, “line length” (57) is being retired as the user-need should be covered by linearization.

But it is still a relevant topic because Linearization (58) also has a similar exception though:
“If the user agent cannot reflow content containing interactive controls, the author is exempt from reflow with this content.”

I suggest that exception removed.

That exception was also in Resize content (which I’m managing), and after some discussion [1] that exception was dropped because it is the *content* that has to be capable of expansion, regardless of the user agent. The thing the author has to do is enable a x4 expansion (and in resize content the testing outline provides a baseline widow size).

Just because some user-agents do not support zoom+reflow does not make it an invalid content requirement.

For linearise it is even *less* relevant because the whole point is that the user is overriding the layout, so the aspect about whether you *can* resize is on the user (agent), the requirement on the author is that the content does not prevent that.

The latest discussion is on the pull request [2].

Cheers,

-Alastair

1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/w3c-wai-gl/2017JanMar/0392.html

2] https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/pull/89 



On 03/02/2017, 14:27, "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org> wrote:

    
    
    > -----Original Message-----
    > Actually it says:    The author provides the mechanism UNLESS it is already
    > provided by the browsers,   ‘
    [Jason] The main clause indeed says that, but then exceptions 1 and 2 (immediately below) contradict it, or at least restrict it in ways that are far from clear.
    
    
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