- From: Christophe Strobbe <christophe.strobbe@esat.kuleuven.be>
- Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:06:13 +0200
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
Hi, At 18:49 6/08/2009, W Reagan wrote: >One last question. Please take a look at ><http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-scale.html>http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/visual-audio-contrast-scale.html. >Statement #2 "Ensuring that text containers resize when the text >resizes". What does this mean? How can I test it? Some layouts use columns that don't "grow" when text is resized. This results in columns that are very narrow compared to the text size, and spans of texts (usually long words or URLs) that are wider than the column in which they are supposed to fit (which can result in overlapping text and/or different colour contrast for the text that sticks out of the column). From the developer's point of view, flexible or "fluid" layouts can work around this problem. From the user's point of view, zooming (as opposed to merely resizing text) also avoids this problem, but some older browsers can only resize text (Internet Explorer 6 and older, Firefox 3 and older, etcetera). Currently, you can't assume that all visitors have a browser that supports zooming. Best regards, Christophe -- Christophe Strobbe K.U.Leuven - Dept. of Electrical Engineering - SCD Research Group on Document Architectures Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2442 B-3001 Leuven-Heverlee BELGIUM tel: +32 16 32 85 51 http://www.docarch.be/ --- "Better products and services through end-user empowerment" http://www.usem-net.eu/ --- Please don't invite me to LinkedIn, Facebook, Quechup or other "social networks". You may have agreed to their "privacy policy", but I haven't.
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