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Originally Posted by Hitch
MarjaE:
But..the size of a "page" in an eBook has nothing to do with accessiblity.
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Except that people may need to enlarge text to read it. It's harder to do that if we can't reflow text. Yes, some people can use zoom and pan, but not everyone.
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A note on accessibility--what would be really nice would be if every college, university, institute and Tom, Dick and Harriet didn't have their own damn made-up accessibility standards. I just went through a brain-damaging process with a college-professor client, whose university insisted that our ePDF only met 49% of their accessibility standards and when we finally--finally--figured out WTH they wanted, was it in WCAG2? Was it even close? Did it even MAKE SENSE? Hell, no.
Hitch
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WCAG standards are better than the web as it is, but they aren't enough.
For example, they permit flashing and scrolling text under certain circumstances. For example, for very important alerts, or if it flashes less than 3 times per second, for less than 5 seconds. Such important alerts that it's alright to make people sick and leave people unable to read the actual alert.
https://www.w3.org/WAI/test-evaluate...minary/#moving
For another, they don't address smooth scrolling. A lot of sites override browser settings, and impose smooth scrolling regardless of user preferences and accessibility needs.