- From: Chaals McCathieNevile <w3b@chaals.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2012 15:45:13 +0200
- To: "GF Mueden@" <gfmueden@verizon.net>
- Cc: "'WAI Interest Group'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>, "Crista Earl" <cearl@afb.net>, "Lee Huffman" <lhuffman@afb.net>, "Aries Arditi" <arditi@verizon.net>, rcole@jgb.org
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 14:11:47 +0200, GF Mueden@ <gfmueden@verizon.net> wrote: > Thank you, Chaas. Close but no cigar. The needs of those with limited > visual fields are not met by full screen width accessibility. Ah, sorry, I'd misunderstood the requirement :) > They need a narrow column. Right. > That calls for pulling in the margins and having word wrap within those > margins. This can be done, is in wide use, but is it covered in the > guidelines? Not easily. As close as you get directly is: 1.4.8 Visual Presentation: For the visual presentation of blocks of text, a mechanism is available to achieve the following: (Level AAA) [...] 2. Width is no more than 80 characters or glyphs (40 if CJK). which isn't necessarily enough. :( Time to raise an issue for WCAG 3? Cheers > ===gm=== > > On 8/10/2012 6:25 AM, Chaals McCathieNevile wrote: >> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 12:01:42 +0200, GF Mueden@ <gfmueden@verizon.net> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi all. >>> >>> The August issue of AccessWorld, reading the editorial, my old eyes >>> were the width of the lines away from the screen. I pulled in the >>> margins to get a shorter line, but it truncated the lines. It should >>> have had word wrap for the benefit of those with limited visual field. >> >> How did you pull in themargins? Which browser were you using? >> >> I zoomed the text in Opera Next (I'm a poet, but it is hard to realise) >> and the words got wrapped to maintain the layout - up to a certain >> amount of zoom which I guess was more than 200%. >> >>> Is this problem covered in the guidelines? Where should AFB be >>> looking? >> >> There are a couple of relevante requirements: >> >> 1.4.4 Resize text: Except for captions and images of text, text can be >> resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent without loss of >> content or functionality. (Level AA) >> >> and >> >> 1.4.8 Visual Presentation: For the visual presentation of blocks of >> text, a mechanism is available to achieve the following: (Level AAA) >> [points 1-4 are not relevant] >> 5. Text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 >> percent in a way that does not require the user to scroll >> horizontally to read a line of text on a full-screen window. >> >> This is not exactly brilliant, but it does cover what you are asking >> for. >> >> cheers >> >> Chaals >> > -- Chaals - standards declaimer
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