https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17297
--- Comment #16 from Philippe Verdy <[email protected]> 2012-10-07 18:43:39 UTC --- I'd like to give 3 practicle examples about these accessibility needs (for large enough line-heights, and restricted line-widths) : 1) In churches, many people complained that they could not read the Bible or the priest books during masses. So the priest preprinted the Bible extract that was read during the ceremony, just using larger fonts (e.g. 12 pica), but also doubled line-heights and no more than 60 ems per line. Aged peoples appreciate this due to their vision problems (including people that suffer from restrictions of their angle of vision). 2) In schools, young children need texts not exceeding about 40 ems of width per line. Otherwise they won't read it, and with a minimum line-height of about 1.5, sometimes 2.0. This is a problem of training of their vision when they learn to read, as they need to point the text to read with their finger. 3) When studying texts, it is also common to reprint an article with a doubled line-height, to allow manual handwritten annotations or corrections between lines of text. Or they want lines not exceeding more than a dozen of words, for allowing readable added annotations in the side margins. Very useful for text reviewers and correctors. These problems are not solved in browsers just by zooming in or redefining the size of the "logical point" in their display settings. Such adjustments wanted by users will be useful, and fixing line-heights to absolute values relative to the initial font size will not match these understandable desires. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
