[Wash-at] [Washington Assistive Technology Act Program Blog] Web Accessibility Wednesday: Line Length

[Washington Assistive Technology Act Program]

This is part of a continuing series of web accessibility tips for IT  
personnel, web managers and web development groups. These tips can be used  
to review current website accessibility and to utilize in developing new  
websites with the hope of improving web accessibility for everyone.

Pages should be designed so the line length, the number of characters that  
appear per line, should be neither too short nor too long. Anything more  
than around 80 characters can introduce reading difficulties in scanning  
from the end of a line of text to the beginning of the next line. Short  
line lengths also introduce difficulty and vertical scrolling. The width of  
the body area of a web page should be constructed to ensure that lines of  
text are constrained to both minimum and maximum lengths across both small  
(such as mobile devices) and large screen resolutions.

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Posted By Washington Assistive Technology Act Program to Washington  
Assistive Technology Act Program Blog at 10/05/2011 09:07:00 AM
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