visual clutter (Split from #61 2.4.5 language)

[allanj-uaag]

#61

from https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-low-vision-comments/2016AprJun/0003.html

Section 2.5: Functional Vision
· Paragraph after Issue 2. Other factors – such as inflammation, medication, fatigue, environment, and task (add in lighting) – influence a person's effective (replace with functional) vision in a given situation.
· Environmental factors include:
Add in ‘visual clutter’

[shawna-slh]

point 1a: Lighting is included in "environment" -- in this sentence and in the list later.

[shawna-slh]

point 1b:

Other factors — such as inflammation, medication, fatigue, environment, and task — influence a person’s effective vision in a given situation.

vs

Other factors — such as inflammation, medication, fatigue, environment, and task — influence a person’s functional vision in a given situation.

Is "functional vision" too jargony? Do we need to explain it? The title of that section is "Functional Vision".

[shawna-slh]

point 2: I think visual clutter is an aspect of the info design, rather than the environment. We should make sure it's adequately covered in the user needs.

[allanj-uaag]

reply: we will create a user need or expand other needs to include clutter

[shawna-slh]

Action items from 9 June telecon:

• change "effective vision" to "functional vision"
• add or expand user need covering clutter
• "Physical environmental factors include:"

[shawna-slh]

change "effective vision" to "functional vision"

Done.

add or expand user need covering clutter

still open ^ ^ ^

"Physical environmental factors include:"

Done.

[shawna-slh]

I would like for us to re-think creating a new User Need for visual clutter. It is a usability issue for everyone, is a more significant issue for many people with cognitive disabilities, and seems only somewhat more of an issue for people with low vision.

We have a user need for increasing margins and borders:

If text is close to edges, it is hard for some people to distinguish letters and it negatively impacts readability. Having wide margins around blocks of text helps some people focus on the text and not get distracted by surround text, images, etc. This is especially important for tracking when blocks of text are in columns or near other text. ...

I propose that visual clutter doesn't quite meet the threshold for including in this LV user needs doc at this time, and we mark it as a Best Practice. (Hopefully before too long we'll get to working more on Best Practice doc!) We can add it to the LV user needs doc later if warranted.

[lauracarlson]

+1 to marking as a best practice.