CSS letter-spacing cannot be resized Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

A style attribute with letter-spacing: !important cannot be resized by assistive technology.

Help

Ease-of-reading browser extensions inject CSS styles to increase line height and character spacing, but !important properties in style attributes cannot be overridden.

Applicable standards

• ACT Rules 24afc2
• WCAG 2.0 (Success Criteria: 1.4.12 level AA)
• WCAG 2.1 (Success Criteria: 1.4.12 level AA)
• WCAG 2.2 (Success Criteria: 1.4.12 level AA)
• Section 508 (2017) (Success Criteria: 1.4.12 level AA)

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

• 6.51 Dec 2023 Updated for ACT Rules PR 1923.
• 6.40 Jan 2021 Added.

This page describes a web site issue detected in HTML documents by SortSite Desktop and OnDemand Suite.

Rule ID: AccCssLetterSpacingImportant