A: 0
B: +1, depends on how you detect it's a translation page
C: 0
F: +0 (if we have extra time, ok)


Le mer. 21 nov. 2018 à 17:46, Adel Atallah <adel.atal...@xwiki.com> a
écrit :

> Hello,
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 5:36 PM Simon Urli <simon.u...@xwiki.com> 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
> > simon.u...@xwiki.com
> > More about us at http://www.xwiki.com
>


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Research & Development Engineer at XWiki SAS
Committer on the XWiki.org project

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