| Title | Letter spacing controlled by whitespace characters |
|---|---|
| Description | A paragraph containing several words. To emphasize a word, whitespace characters are inserted between the letters. (See WCAG 2.0 failure F32) |
| Creator | BenToWeb (johannes.koch@…) |
| Rights | Copyright BenToWeb 2005-2007 |
| Language | English |
| Date | 2006-08-07 |
| Status | accepted QA |
Technologies are markup languages or data formats. If the technology is a markup language, “features” refers to elements and attributes.
XHTML™ 1.0 The Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)
Feature: strong
(namespace: http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml)
.
Technical specification:
The strong element
.
This test case is intended to fail because spacing within the emphasized word is controlled with white space characters.
Accessibility expert.
“Rules” refer to success criteria in WCAG 2.0, checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 and similar requirements.
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 12, column 43: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20060427/guidelines.html#content-structure-separation-sequence.
The emphasized word distracts reading software.
The emphasized word contains whitespace characters. So it is not clear that the letters belong to a word.
This test case maps to failure F32: Failure of SC 1.3.3 due to using white space characters to control spacing within a word (http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-TECHS-20060427/Overview.html#F32).
The test case fails the following success criterion at line 12, column 43: http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-WCAG20-20050630/#content-structure-separation-sequence.
The emphasized word distracts reading software.
The emphasized word contains whitespace characters. So it is not clear that the letters belong to a word.