Text appearance
Guideline
Users can read visually rendered text.
AGWG remains committed to providing Text Appearance guidance for multiple scripts and/or languages. To support our internationalization goals, AGWG is exploring ways to:
- not require WCAG 3 to be republished when metrics are added for more scripts/languages,
- make script/language-specific metrics normative,
- meet the needs of different scripts and languages by allowing flexibility in which metrics are required and in their values, and
- preserve backward compatibility.
We need help from people with expertise in non-Latin scripts and languages. For example, the Text Appearance guideline includes provisions on line height and spacing, and these provisions need to work for Latin-based and non-Latin-based scripts and languages.
We are updating the WCAG 3 wiki on evidence and research needed to include specific areas we need to work through to ensure that the Text Appearance provisions meet the needs of users with disabilities worldwide. If you are aware of research in this area and/or would like to partner with us on this work, please email public-agwg-comments@w3.org.
User needs
This content needs to be written.
Provisions under this guideline
- Blocks of text readable (minimum)
- Text style readable (minimum)
- Text contrast sufficient (minimum)
- Blocks of text adjustable
- Text style adjustable
- Text size adjustable
- Text color adjustable
- Blocks of text readable (enhanced)
- Text style readable (enhanced)
- Text contrast sufficient (enhanced)
- Text customizations retained
Key Terms
- accessibility support set
group of user agents and assistive technologies you test with
The AGWG is considering defining a default set of user agents and assistive technologies that they use when validating guidelines.
Accessibility support sets may vary based on language, region, or situation.
If you are not using the default accessibility set, the conformance report should indicate what set is being used.
- accessibility supported
available and working in the user agents and assistive technology in the accessibility support set
The working group intended to include a default accessibility support set. See Default accessibility support set #277.
- human language
language that is spoken, written, or signed (through visual or tactile means) to communicate with humans
- programmatically determinable
meaning of the content and all its important attributes can be determined by software functionality that is accessibility supported
- text
sequence of characters that can be programmatically determined, where the sequence is expressing something in human language