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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 14, 2019 2:54PM

On 14/06/2019 20:08, Jared Smith wrote:
> The wording leaves a bit to be desired, but the intent is that there's
> no loss of content or functionality if the USER applies these settings
> to your page. As an author, you don't need to set these (except for
> testing) - you just need to ensure things don't fall apart if the end
> user does so.
>
> I have a primary concern with this success criterion. Web pages that
> already have optimal paragraph, line, word, and letter spacing (and
> text sizes) can be more difficult to pass this because really good
> spacing becomes VERY large spacing. An easy (though ill-advised)
> solution to this is to make the default spacing and text sizes much
> smaller - thus making it more difficult for everyone to read, but
> easier to avoid this WCAG failure.

Similar to the old-school "text resize" for just text size (rather than
allowing full-page zoom as a valid method), the way to satisfy this is
in general not to set widths/heights in absolute hard units, and to be
careful with absolutely positioned elements. Have things adapt to
however big content can get.

P
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