Justified text is hard to read Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

Many people with cognitive disabilities (including dyslexia) find text styled with text-align:justify hard to read.

Help

Justified text aligned to both the left and the right margins creates rivers of white running down the page due to extra word spacing. This makes justified text difficult to read for some people. The best way to avoid the problem is avoid justified text.

Applicable standards

• WCAG 2.0 F88 (Success Criteria: 1.4.8 level AAA)
• WCAG 2.1 F88 (Success Criteria: 1.4.8 level AAA)
• WCAG 2.2 F88 (Success Criteria: 1.4.8 level AAA)

Change history

• 5.32 Feb 2019 Fixed false positive on unused CSS rules.
• 5.5 May 2014 Don’t fire on Asian language text which ignores the justify style.
• 4.4 Aug 2011 Fixed false positive.
• 3.0 Dec 2008 Added.

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

Rule ID: AccWcag2-F88-1