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Re: fontsize vs. window width and line length

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Sep 25, 2017 1:25AM

On 25/09/2017 01:19, Jonathan Avila wrote:
>> . Are any numbers recommended?
>
> This was discussed in the low vision task force at the W3c. Some people had suggested 25 characters per line for people with low vision. In the end the proposed success criteria in the current working draft calls for support of 400% zoom at 1280 which comes down to support zoom without loss of content or functionality at 320 CSS pixels (with exceptions). This is of course still a proposed working draft and changes can occur.
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> https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/

Noting though that in the end no line length recommendation is present
in WCAG 2.1, and the 400% zoom / 320 CSS pixel SC still says nothing
about actual font size, specifically...only that users should be allowed
to zoom. It's also not really saying anything about hyphenation of long
words, and it's arguable that it's not a loss of content or
functionality if at smaller screen sizes long words get hyphenated.

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