Whitespace is not utilized to create text spacing within a word. Whitespace is not utilized to create columns or tables visually in plain text.
WCAG 2 criterion
1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence (Level A)
Tools and requirements
Screen Reader
Siteimprove (policy)
Test procedure
When browsing content, be sure that there are no cases where whitespace is used for text spacing or formatting.
There is a policy in Siteimprove called "Potential overuse of whitespace." It searches for situations where there are 3 or more spaces in a row (which would be indicative of using whitespace to create visual columns). It will not be able to search for scenarios where there is space between letters in a word.
This should be among the checks that you perform on the subset of pages that manual testing is performed on.
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Create a PHP class in the namespace "App\Services\AccessibilityAnalyzer\GuidelineRules"
that extends "App\Services\AccessibilityAnalyzer\GuidelineRuleRunner" and is called "Guideline26" that has a function with the signature "protected function findApplicableElements(Crawler $crawler): Crawler". The base class includes the function "protected function isElementIncludedInAccessibilityTree(\DOMNode $element): bool" for determining if an element is included in the accessibility tree.
Web accessibility guideline:
## Whitespace is not utilized to create text spacing within a word. Whitespace is not utilized to create columns or tables visually in plain text.
### WCAG 2 criterion
1.3.2 Meaningful Sequence (Level A)
### Tools and requirements
* Screen Reader
* Siteimprove (policy)
### Test procedure
When browsing content, be sure that there are no cases where whitespace is used for text spacing or formatting.
There is a policy in Siteimprove called "Potential overuse of whitespace." It searches for situations where there are 3 or more spaces in a row (which would be indicative of using whitespace to create visual columns). It will not be able to search for scenarios where there is space between letters in a word.
This should be among the checks that you perform on the subset of pages that manual testing is performed on.
