Re: Target size update

Hey Alastair,
This looks good. The one thing I think that still needs is to change
"except if" to "except where". We've got a few "except where"'s in WCAG,
but it doesn't have an "except if" anywhere. Just for consistency.


On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 1:42 AM Katie Haritos-Shea <ryladog@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I like it!
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2021, 6:07 PM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi everyone,
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>> We ran out of time on the call, but I wanted to explain the option I
>> suggested.
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>> We had quite a few suggestions documented:
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>> https://docs.google.com/document/d/15dOWrY08WXWvzdmRNFoFYF1odpTu3WYbexNm06FOhuI/edit
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>> The one that popped out to me was to separate the measure into a
>> definition. We got so contorted trying to explain it in the SC text, it
>> needs a bit of space.
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>> Overall, I think that would look like this:
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>> Targets have an area of at least 24 by 24 CSS pixels, except if:
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>>    - *Spacing*: The *target offset* is at least 24 CSS pixels to every
>>    adjacent target;
>>    - *Inline*: The target is in a sentence or block of text;
>>    - *Essential*: A particular presentation of the target is essential
>>    to the information being conveyed.
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>> *Target offset*: the distance measured from the farthest point of a
>> target, to the nearest point of the second target. Offset includes the
>> target and spacing around the target. The offset from A to B may be
>> different then the offset from B to A, if the size of these targets differ.
>>
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>> Just remembering that the first sentence of the definition should be able
>> to replace where that definition is used. E.g. The ‘the distance measured
>> from the farthest point of a target, to the nearest point of the second
>> target‘ is at least 24 CSS pixels to every adjacent target;
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>> I’m hoping that captured all the comments?
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>> If people aren’t comfortable with putting that in a definition then I
>> think it could be reconfigured back into the SC, and the rest of the
>> definition could become a note.
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>>
>> Kind regards,
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>>
>> -Alastair
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>> --
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>> @alastc / www.nomensa.com
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