1.4.8-Visual-Presentation

The following information is excerpted from the W3C WCAG site.

Criteria: 1.4.8 Visual Presentation

For the visual presentation of blocks of text, an adaptive mechanism is available so that: A. Foreground and background colors can be selected by the user; B. Width is no more than 80 characters or glyphs (40 if CJK); C. Text is not justified (aligned to both the left and the right margins); D. 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; E. 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.

What is Lorem Ipsum?

Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in the 1960s with the release of Letraset sheets containing Lorem Ipsum passages, and more recently with desktop publishing software like Aldus PageMaker including versions of Lorem Ipsum. Typical sample text is shown below.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Suspendisse accumsan rutrum consectetur. Vivamus eu ex quis leo posuere convallis. Nunc laoreet velit sed ullamcorper mollis. Mauris porta consequat tortor aliquet maximus. Quisque sed purus condimentum orci sodales aliquam non vel tellus. Praesent lorem arcu, scelerisque a semper at, iaculis eget purus. Etiam ullamcorper orci a porttitor sodales. Nullam tincidunt nibh et hendrerit auctor. Quisque vitae quam ut lorem vehicula condimentum. In commodo cursus elit, non volutpat lectus sagittis non.