Hello, On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 5:36 PM Simon Urli <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi everyone,
one of the most validation error we have with WCAG is about consecutive line breaks: basically a <br /><br /> presents in a page.
This happens mostly in our translation pages since the linebreaks in plain syntax are translated in <br /> tags. Caty provided a lot of details about this error on the related issue: https://jira.xwiki.org/browse/XWIKI-15666.
Currently we have around 140 validations failure because of this.
Different proposal have been made in order to fix it, that I will try to sum-up here:
A. Remove completely this validation check
-0, I think the validation can be useful at least to keep good practices.
B. Add an exception for the translation pages
+1, simplest one.
C. Triggers the error only if more than 2 consecutive breaks is encountered
-1, it doesn't really makes sense to do that, it's like B. but badly done.
D. Create a rendering syntax dedicated to translation pages
+1, could be a good idea but might be complicated.
A. Remove completely the validation check
pros: * the easiest one * apparently the rule is not checked in other accessibility test, so its real purpose for accessibility is unclear
cons: * IMO this rule is useful for checking the good practice of not using <br />
B. Add an exception for the translation pages
pros: * same as for A
cons: * ?
C. Triggers the error only if more than 2 consecutive breaks is encountered
pros: * ?
cons: * we would miss some consecutive <br /> that are used only for style and we would catch some others in translations if we do 3 linebreaks instead of 2. IMO it's only moving the problem
D. Create a rendering syntax dedicated to translation pages
pros: * remove completely the problem of consecutive <br /> in translations * can maybe be used to present them in another way?
cons: * need to develop/test/maintain a new rendering syntax
I'd personnaly vote like this: A: +0 B: +1 C: -1 D: +0
WDYT?
Simon -- Simon Urli Software Engineer at XWiki SAS [email protected] More about us at http://www.xwiki.com