Solution for the Editor's Note on Adapting Text SC?

Hello Everyone,

The editor's note on the adapting Text SC currently states [1]:

"The Working Group seeks to include overriding text color, background
color, and font-family as part of this SC, but is not yet able to
identify a way to do so that is sufficiently testable."

Gregg V has suggested adding 2 bullet points and a note [2] to solve this:

<quote>

5. text color to any color that the user agent allows background color
to any color that the user agent allows
6. font-family to any font family that the user agent allows and has
immediately available

NOTE: If the user is changes the text and background colors - then the
author is not responsible for meeting any contrast SC other than for
the colors specified as default by the author.

<unquote>

In addition Scott Hollier seems to be in support of the color bullet
and has commented [3], "The Adapting Text SC would be a fantastic
addition. As a high contrast color user its often the case that
websites don't account for user-defined colors and you end up in
situations where text gets garbled or you can end up with for example,
black text on a black background. The specifics of this need some work
but I'm a big fan of the principle."

Should we add Gregg's bullets?

Previous discussion and related info:

The LVTF previously discuss dropping the font bullet from the SC. With
the exception of Icon Fonts, which we hope to address via Issue 297
[4] the LVTF hasn't found a page yet where the font family cannot be
overridden via bookmarklet or user stylesheet or VIP-PDF Reader. The
TF resolved to remove the font bullet last April. [5]

The "Adapting Text user to content requirements table" [6] tries to
sort out what actually breaks for users and how to address it.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Kindest Regards,
Laura

[1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/wcag21/archive/adapting-text_ISSUE-74-78-79/guidelines/#adapting-text
[2] https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/348
[3] https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/153
[4] https://github.com/w3c/wcag21/issues/297
[5] https://www.w3.org/2017/04/27-lvtf-minutes.html#resolution01
[6] https://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/low-vision-a11y-tf/wiki/Adapting_text_user_to_content_requirements_table

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Laura L. Carlson

Received on Tuesday, 12 September 2017 19:49:55 UTC