- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 12 May 2020 11:04:37 +0100
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 12/05/2020 09:25, Hilera González José Ramón wrote: > Hello. > > The success criterion 1.4.10 Reflow establishes: Content can be > presented without loss of information or functionality, and without > requiring scrolling in two dimensions for: vertical scrolling content at > a width equivalent to 320 CSS pixels > <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-css-pixels>; horizontal scrolling > content at a height equivalent to 256 CSS pixels > <https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-css-pixels>. > > Why not also include in this criterion or in a new one that content can > be presented without loss of information or functionality disabling all > styles? My personal take on this would be: For static web content, I would say that most issues related to disabling styles / not relying on styles should already be covered by existing success criteria like 1.1.1, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4.1 (and many others). However, for dynamic web content (involving custom widgets, scripting, dynamic components like disclosure widgets or modal dialogs), it's now mostly unrealistic to expect/demand that they work without any styling/CSS. even just the basic use of display:none is essential for many dynamic elements to work correctly / be correctly hidden from all users and then revealed both visually and in the accessibility tree. Further, CSS is generally part of the technologies that modern sites rely on. So even IF there was an SC that mandated that sites work without any styling, it would likely need to be exempted/excluded by most sites if they included CSS in their list of technologies that are relied on upon https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#dfn-relied-upon. P -- Patrick H. Lauke https://www.splintered.co.uk/ | https://github.com/patrickhlauke https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ | https://www.deviantart.com/redux twitter: @patrick_h_lauke | skype: patrick_h_lauke
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