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Blocks of text readable (enhanced)

Supplemental requirement

The default/authored presentation of blocks of text meets the enhanced @@ [values to be determined] for:

  • Inline margin
  • Block margin
  • Line length
  • Line height

If you are aware of research in this area, especially involving non-Latin scripts, please email public-agwg-comments@w3.org.

Tests

Procedure

For each block of text:

  1. HTML: Check CSS to confirm that relevant style attributes (such as line height, letter spacing, word spacing, text align) are set within the values specified in the provision.
  2. Non-web apps: Check GUI toolkit settings (or defaults) to confirm that they apply values within the designated range.

Expected results

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.

block of text

more than one sentence of text

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