- From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2017 06:38:44 -0500
- To: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
- Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, "lisa.seeman" <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>
Hi Alastair, Okay. Your rationale makes sense to me. Thank you very much. Kindest regards, Laura On 7/6/17, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote: > Hi Laura, > >> Alastair, would it be possible for you to incorporate Lisa's metrics into >> your bookmarklet for testing so we can know for sure? > > It doesn't really fit, the SC (even after all the 'honing') applies to all > text on the page. > > It doesn't differentiate between blocks of text and navigation, lists, > headings etc. > > If we simply add a bullet about spacing around paragraphs (and/or?) sections > /regions, we would have to create another SCs-worth of definitions to scope > that. > > A user-side script / extension that overrides the site styles is a blunt > tool, it doesn't know how the site is put together. If you have a look at > the kind of nesting that happens on most websites, adding spacing to regions > of the page is guaranteed to make things fall apart, it wouldn't help. (E.g. > add any spacing at all to <div>s and you'd have more spacing than content!) > > I could see that adding spacing around blocks of text (e.g. paragraphs) > could work, but as a solution it would be pretty hit-and-miss, and would > still be hard to define. > > -Alastair > -- Laura L. Carlson
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