- From: Jon Gunderson <jongund@uiuc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 16:25:59 -0500
- To: Al Gilman <asgilman@iamdigex.net>, "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, Tantek Celik <tantek@cs.stanford.edu>
- Cc: w3c-wai-ua@w3.org
Al, This type of requirement is related to the old screen scraping mode of accessing information from a user agent. A refreshable braille display following the guidelines should be using the DOM, not a graphical rendering to gather information to be displayed. Jon At 03:47 PM 7/11/2001 -0400, Al Gilman wrote: >At 02:36 PM 2001-07-11 , Jon Gunderson wrote: > >I don't like complicating the checkpoint with cascading requirements and > >ambiguous terms. > > >3. I don't think the minimum size needs to be specified or mentioned, since > >any practical user agent will implement smaller sizes useful to people with > >average vision. I don't think many developers are going to start their > >design process using our document and say want we need to do to conform > >this document. Most will be trying to add capabilities to current > >implementations to their technology. > > > >The users who want the smallest screen font are not visual users but Braille >users, IIRC. We can't necessarily judge the low end of what is needed from >what works for the 20:20 eyeball. > >I am trying to check my sources, but the value I recall as in use was '3.' I >just succeeded in throwing WordPad into size '3' Arial. But not for all fonts >such as Fixedsys, which seems to bottom out at '9.' > >Al Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP Coordinator of Assistive Communication and Information Technology Division of Rehabilitation - Education Services MC-574 College of Applied Life Studies University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign 1207 S. Oak Street, Champaign, IL 61820 Voice: (217) 244-5870 Fax: (217) 333-0248 E-mail: jongund@uiuc.edu WWW: http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~jongund WWW: http://www.w3.org/wai/ua
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