{"id":40,"date":"2020-11-05T21:29:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T21:29:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/accessible-design\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2020-11-19T17:53:57","modified_gmt":"2020-11-19T17:53:57","slug":"spatial-considerations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/accessible-design\/spatial-considerations\/","title":{"rendered":"Spatial Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"

The spacing in-between letters is known as tracking and spacing in-between lines of text is known as leading. It is important to create enough space in-between lines of text that way, users with a sight or reading impairments can easily read the information. If the letters and words are too close or crowed, it will be hard for your users to read effectively.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Below are examples of approved spacing of point size of the font and leading pairing within a website and in written information.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Accessible\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Visual Example<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a visual example of the correct use of spacing for headings and lines of text within a paragraph. The leading is at least two to three points higher than the font point size.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Inaccessible\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/h3>\n

Visual Example<\/span><\/p>\n

This is a visual example of the incorrect use of spacing for headings ans lines of text within a paragraph. The lack of leading or the space between lines of text is too close.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"This<\/p>\n

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The spacing in-between letters is known as tracking and spacing in-between lines of text is known as leading. It is important to create enough space in-between lines of text that way, users with a sight or reading impairments can easily read the information. If the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/accessible-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/accessible-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/accessible-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/accessible-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/accessible-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/accessible-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.msudenver.edu\/accessible-design\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}