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Addresses – making it easier for users to see and hear content including the separation of foreground from background sound. For example, a sight impaired person who has difficulty reading text due to constant scrolling right to left to read each line.

1.4.10 Reflow (AA) – Content will be presented without loss of information, functionality and without requiring scrolling in two dimensions. This includes:

Addresses – Creating content that can be presented without losing information or structure. A good example would be to make a simpler layout that works for both portrait and landscape modes.

• Vertical scrolling content – width equivalent to 320 CSSS pixels
• Horizontal scrolling content - height equivalent to 256 CSSS pixels

1.4.11 Non-Text Contrast (AA) – Introduction of a contrast ratio for presentations of at least 3:1 against adjacent colors. A sight impaired individual may have difficulty discriminating between text boxes in a form to be completed. The outline of the textbox (or icons as well) must be contrasted enough to indicate where exactly its borders are.

• User Interface Components: Visual information used to indicate boundaries of user-based components. This includes the states of the boundaries as well except for inactive components or those not modified by the user.

• Graphical Objects: Parts of a graphic used to understand the content except when a specific graphic is essential to the information being displayed.

1.4.12 Text Spacing (AA) –

• Line height – to at least 1.5 times the font size.
• Letter Spacing – At least 0.12 times the font size.
• Spacing – paragraphs to at least 2 times the font size
• Word spacing – At least 0.16 times the font size.

The exception to this standard are for those text styles (languages) that cannot form to all requirements above..

1.4.13 Content on Hover or Focus (AA) - Content that is displayed on mouse hover or keyboard focus that triggers additional content to become visible then hidden. For example, moving your mouse over to another area of the webpage only to find the mouse activating a pop-up display that blocks the content you are trying to read, and it is not going away.

• Dismissible: A mechanism in place to dismiss content without moving the mouse or keyboard.

• Hoverable: If your mouse pointer triggers additional content, then the pointer can move over the additional content without it disappearing.

• Persistent: Additional content remains visible until the hover or focus trigger is removed or the user dismisses it. In some cases, it will also disappear if the information is no longer valid.

The data mining process breaks down into five major steps:

• Organizations collect data and load these data sets into their warehouses.
• The data will be stored and managed either on-site or in the cloud.
• Business analysts, management teams and technology professionals now access the data and determine how they want to organize it.
• Application software begins to sort the data based on user results.
• The end user will now be able to present the data in an easy to share format such as a graph or table.

Addresses – Providing users enough time to read and use content. An example here would be moving from a form to complete to another webpage in order to retrieve information needed on the form. When you return to the form you discover it timed out automatically and any information you had put in was lost and must be re-entered.

2.2.6 Timeouts (AAA) – Users are now warned of inactivity that may result in data loss unless data is preserved for more than 20 hours when the user does not take any action.

Addresses – Content should not be designed in any way that may trigger seizures or physical reactions. In this case we can look at forms for example where as you move your mouse, a pop-up bubble or window appears with each line of the form your move across. This may cause nausea in some cases.

Addresses – Making it easier for users to operate functionality through various inputs beyond a keyboard. For example, zooming in on a map my present issues for those with motor skills that cannot be controlled easily. Including buttons on the map to click to zoom in or out will be the alternative to be used. Those buttons must also be a specific size and relative distance in order to not be incorrectly clicked (i.e. cancel button clicked instead of submit button)

2.5.5 Target size (AAA) - Size of the target for pointer inputs is at least 44 by 44 CSS pixels in all cases except:

• Equivalent: Target is available through an equivalent link or control on the same page and that it is at least 44 by 44 CSS pixels.

• User Agent Control: The size of the target is note modified by the author but is determined by the user agent.

• User Agent Control: The size of the target is note modified by the author but is determined by the user agent.

• Essential: A specific presentation of the target is essential to the information conveyed.

2.5.6 Concurrent Input Mechanisms (AAA) – web content will not restrict the use of concurrent device inputs (keyboard, mouse, stylus, voice recognition) unless it is deemed essential and required to ensure the security of the content.