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Re: Objection to Adapting Text

From: Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2017 07:14:57 -0500
Message-ID: <CAOavpvcPuKmc3PBm5GMSU8V+_SQOYnPdfCK7Hk8K71OXsCg_ZQ@mail.gmail.com>
To: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>, "lisa.seeman" <lisa.seeman@zoho.com>
Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Hi Alastair, Lisa, and all,

WCAG 2.0 has no definition for the word "paragraph". So maybe 2.1
doesn't need one ether?

Regarding Line spacing 1.4.8 Visual Presentation in 2.0 says:

"Line spacing (leading) is at least space-and-a-half within
paragraphs, and paragraph spacing is at least 1.5 times larger than
the line spacing."

So how about if we added a bullet that says:

* spacing between paragraphs to at least 2 (two spaces)

So the metrics would read:

* line spacing (leading) to at least 1.5 (space-and-a-half)
* spacing between paragraphs to at least 2 (two spaces)
* letter spacing (tracking) to at least 0.12 em
* word spacing to at least 0.16 em

Thoughts? Lisa, does that work for you?

Kindest Regards,
Laura

On 7/11/17, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:
> Hi Laura,
>
> The paragraph spacing one should be ok (I was thinking of the line/border
> spacing one), although in the context of this SC I’m not sure what value it
> is aiming for?
>
> If line spacing (within paragraphs) is increased to 1.5(em), and paragraphs
> spacing is “at least 1.5 times larger than line spacing”, does that mean
> 2.25em of space between paragraphs? (1.5 * 1.5 = 2.25)
>
> If so, let’s just say that, or possibly round down to 2em (2 lines of
> space?) between paragraphs for simplicity.
>
> Also, do we have (or need) a definition of paragraph?
>
> Paragraph is an element used in HTML/PDF/ePub, so an element that should be
> a paragraph but is not would fail 1.3.1, so perhaps that covers it well
> enough?
>
> Cheers,
>
> -Alastair
>
>
> On 10/07/2017, 21:11, "Laura Carlson" <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi Alastair and all,
>
>     On 7/6/17, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote:
>
>     > 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.
>
>     COGA has an SC that specs paragraph spacing 1.5 times larger than line
> spacing:
>     https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/51
>
>     It likely could be scoped there.
>
>     Kindest Regards,
>     Laura
>
>     --
>     Laura L. Carlson
>
>
>


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Laura L. Carlson
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