Re: Headings and ARIA substitutes

Patrick,

Thank you for re-articulating my question - yes, this is what I am
pondering at this time, and I am hearing that you are in agreement as well
(cool!).

JF

On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 16/06/2016 19:07, John Foliot wrote:
>
> While I've not actually gone and looked at the emergent work of the Low
>> Vision TF (yet), I'm curious whether or not there has been any thought
>> towards proposing a new Success Criteria that sought to address this
>> kind of issue? Perhaps a SC that suggested (total spitballing here...)
>> that headings at level 4 or higher (a.k.a. h1, h2, h3) maintain a visual
>> styling that ensures that the text is at least /XX /% larger than the
>> body text (??). I'd be curious to hear other's thoughts on this, as I'm
>> not sure how something like that would be received, but it sort of
>> sounds like what Wayne is suggesting is needed. Equally, would increased
>> size alone be the proposed requirement, or would something like
>> increased font-weight also meet the functional need you are describing?
>> (i.e. the heading text would remain at the same size as body/paragraph
>> text, but have an increased weight instead. Wayne, would that also work?)
>>
>
> How headings are actually marked up (whether they're marked up using
> <h1>-<h6>, or <span role="heading">, etc) would currently already be caught
> by a combination of 1.3.1 and 4.1.2. So I agree that the visual aspect
> (with particular emphasis on low-vision, but probably also relating to
> cognitive) should perhaps be a new separate SC dealing exclusively with the
> visual representation of headings (regardless of how they're structured in
> markup).
>
>
> P
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