- From: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>
- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 17:52:28 -0700
- To: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
- Cc: "White, Jason J" <jjwhite@ets.org>, WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <CAAdDpDYVzkovfn-_fG_wH5=2_s7OHGgPsUNoi1GRwkx_6OeHYQ@mail.gmail.com>
I'd rather not add the vertical part... it's speculative, and comes at a high cognitive load cost, unless someone brilliantly word smith's it. Cheers, David MacDonald *Can**Adapt* *Solutions Inc.* Tel: 613.235.4902 LinkedIn <http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmacdonald100> twitter.com/davidmacd GitHub <https://github.com/DavidMacDonald> www.Can-Adapt.com <http://www.can-adapt.com/> * Adapting the web to all users* * Including those with disabilities* If you are not the intended recipient, please review our privacy policy <http://www.davidmacd.com/disclaimer.html> On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 3:46 PM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote: > *[Jason] Yes – they’re going to exist within the lifetime of WCAG 2.1, > according to your own investigation, and should thus be handled in the SC.* > > > > AC: Well, I said it was possible but the browser support is not there yet, > and we don’t know when that might work. > > Where there is vertical text at the moment, it is on pages with vertical > scrolling. > > > > Given that, I’d rather not complicate it. Just trying makes my head hurt, > you end up with something like this: > > > > > > For pages that scroll vertically by default, content can be zoomed to an > equivalent width of 320 CSS pixels without loss of content or > functionality, and without requiring horizontal scrolling. > > > > For pages that scroll horizontally by default, content can be zoomed to an > equivalent height of 320 CSS pixels without loss of content or > functionality, and without requiring vertical scrolling. > > > > Except for parts of the content which require two-dimensional layout for > usage or meaning. > > > > > > -Alastair >
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