Re: 1.4.12 - Text Spacing

Hi Michael,

SVG will fail several SCs, not just reflow, but also you cannot change text spacing, colors and other characteristics of the text…

Also it will be difficult find a purpose in the context for links like read more and so on. Putting a presentation into an SVG usually won’t work.

I’d rather offer a simplified version as an accessible MS Word document which in reader mode is similar to a presentation.

- Marc


Am 08.09.2023 um 13:33 schrieb Michael Livesey <mike.j.livesey@gmail.com>:

Thanks Marc and Patrick,

Haha, yes, these are my feelings too. Blocking content just because it is user generated is not accessible.

Quick follow up. Canvas text is excluded as it is classed as an image. What is the situation with SVG text? I am thinking of PowerPoint type diagram SVG containers with text content where the text size is defined by the user.

As you may know, SVG does not wrap, thus position is by coordinate.

Best regards

On Friday, September 8, 2023, Marc Haunschild <haunschild@mhis.onmicrosoft.de<mailto:haunschild@mhis.onmicrosoft.de>> wrote:
> Sometimes the answer is already in the name.
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> It says Web Content Accessibility Guideline
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> It’s not Web Content (except user content) accessibility guideline.
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> No pun intended. It’s just that simple…
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> Mit freundlichen Grüßen
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> Marc Haunschild
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>> Am 08.09.2023 um 12:17 schrieb Michael Livesey <mike.j.livesey@gmail.com<mailto:mike.j.livesey@gmail.com>>:
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> regarding 1.4.12 text spacing, we were having a discussion to what extent this should apply to user content on a site. Someone at our organization has suggested that all user content is excluded from 1.4.12.
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>> For example, there are forms where users can add comments that are visible to other users.
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>> Does 1.4.12 need to apply to user content that is displayed by the system as comments against the form?
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>> Or one user adds test to a text-area field, and then another user opens the form to read the text, does 1.4.12 apply?
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>> In on respect it is user content, but in another the system is generating the content for viewing by others.
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>> Any advice would be much appreciated, thank you!
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