- From: Jim Allan <jimallan@tsbvi.edu>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:59:09 -0600
- To: public-low-vision-a11y-tf <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
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Effects of Text Spacing on Languages/Scripts The SC allows the user to make spacing adjustments. The author needs to allow for the adjustments within the SC range without breaking content as shown in the examples below. The ability to read and derive meaning from the adjusted content rests with the reader. If the increased spacing impacts those abilities the user will adjust or they will return to the default view. Regardless, they user needs the flexibility to adjust spacing within the bounds set in the SC. Testing the following pages with the maximum spacing adjustments allowed by the SC showed no adverse effects for the roughly 480 languages and scripts represented.. - Languages in their own writing systems http://www.geonames.de/languages.html - Online Encylopedia of writing systems and languages – language names https://www.omniglot.com/language/names.htm and - Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Article 1) https://www.omniglot.com/udhr/index.htm Character Spacing - Individual characters in words remained intact though they were spaced a bit further apart. Word Spacing – Words were space farther apart. In languages that do not have words (e.g. Japanese) applying word spacing had no effect. Which is expected. Line-height adjustment – Changing line-height did not separate diacritics from characters, nor did it adversely impact ascenders and descenders. -- Jim Allan, Accessibility Coordinator Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired 1100 W. 45th St., Austin, Texas 78756 voice 512.206.9315 fax: 512.206.9452 http://www.tsbvi.edu/ "We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us." McLuhan, 1964
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