8755 2010-01-14 15:55:53 +0000 Automatic reduction of text-size is unnecessary 2010-10-04 14:30:49 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified All All RESOLVED INVALID http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-xhtml-syntax.html#fonts-and-colors a11y P2 normal --- 1 gez.lemon ian ian mike Ms2ger public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 31053 0 gez.lemon 2010-01-14 15:55:53 +0000 Users with low vision adjust font sizes to the minimum size needed for comfortable reading. Many users with low vision do not use assistive technology, but rather adjust to the largest font size supported by the user agent. Reducing the size of the font - particularly a text-dense element like "article" - increases the imbalance between font sizes in other parts of the page (e.g. the user would be forced to increase font size for the article text to the point where the font size in the non-nested parts of the page are enlarged so much as to overflow their containers. Automatic reduction of the size is unnecessary and will decrease access for users with low vision. Proposal: Remove the section. Nested elements should not have the containing text size reduced automatically. The author can choose to reduce the size of nested text through CSS, but it should not happen to font sizes automatically. 31055 1 Ms2ger 2010-01-14 18:29:58 +0000 The specification doesn't mandate or even suggest decreasing the font size of article elements. 31841 2 cooper 2010-02-11 17:26:50 +0000 Per the proposal at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html-a11y/2010Jan/0245.html, the HTML A11Y TF does not plan to formally work on this issue at this time. This does not mean the TF has no interest in it, but does not have immediate plans to work on it. The TF may review the issue in the future.