1.4.8
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For the visual presentation of blocks of text, a mechanism is available to achieve the following:

For the visual presentation of blocks of text, a mechanism is available to achieve the following:

  • Foreground and background colors can be selected by the user.
  • Width is no more than 80 characters or glyphs (40 if CJK).
  • Text is not justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins).
  • Line spacing (leading) is at least space-and-a-half within paragraphs, and paragraph spacing is at least 1.5 times larger than the line spacing.
  • Text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent in a way that does not require the user to scroll horizontally to read a line of text on a full-screen window.

WCAG Techniques

  • C23
  • C25
  • G156
  • G148
  • G175
  • G204
  • C20
  • C19
  • G172
  • G169
  • G188
  • C21
  • G146
  • C12
  • C13
  • C14
  • C24
  • SCR34
  • G206
  • F24
  • F88