Re: Target Size (Min) Updates

Hello,

I am comfortable with this as long as the understanding document explains the details and addresses potential gaming. Also, I realize that we are nesting bullets but can we explore formatting this exception as a bulleted list for readability?

Inline: The target is:

·         in a sentence,

·         in a bulleted or numbered list, or

·         its size is otherwise constrained by the line-height of non-target text;
Kind regards,

Rachael

From: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 1:50 PM
To: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Subject: Re: Target Size (Min) Updates
Resent-From: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Resent-Date: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 1:49 PM

Hi everyone,

We had a good post-meeting discussion on this which I’ll round up here.

We got to this formulation:
“Inline: The target is in a sentence, or is in a bulleted or numbered list, or its size is otherwise constrained by the line-height of non-target text;”

The factors we discussed for that were:

  *   Dropping the page-type concepts such as “body” and “main”.
  *   Focusing on the presentation of the content of lists (which can be emphasised in the understanding doc).
     *   That is useful for cross-technology application;
     *   It could be slightly gamed (e.g. add bullets to your navigation), but that seems unlikely.
     *   If you update the CSS to remove the bullets, you can also bump the list height up a bit to pass. (I.e. default lists are excepted.)
  *   Updates to the commas and “or”s to make it more readable.
  *   It should improve the cross-tester reliability.
Kind regards,

-Alastair