CSS letter-spacing cannot be resized Accessibility Checkpoint

Description

A style attribute with letter-spacing: !important cannot be resized by assistive technology.

Help

Ease-of-reading browser extensions inject CSS styles to increase line height and character spacing, but !important properties in style attributes cannot be overridden.

Applicable standards

Note: Section 508 Refresh (2017) checkpoints are equivalent to WCAG 2.0 level A and level AA checkpoints.

Change history

  • 6.51 Dec 2023 Updated for ACT Rules PR 1923.
  • 6.40 Jan 2021 Added.

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

Rule ID: AccCssLetterSpacingImportant