Document convention - Unnecessarily hard to read high stakes information

[mr45144]

Comments as requested by recent email)
Document Conventions require "Replacement text that is presented to show how an SC would read as modified by the advice in this document are in elements visually styled as bold green text with a dotted underline."
For an accessibility organisation this is ironically very difficult to read with corrected eyesight let alone if more spacing is required for print-disability. The underline is tight up against the descenders/bottom of all characters even when applying the requirements of 1.4.12.

**Expected behaviour ** A document from W3C should be stylistically designed for accessibility.
As published - hard to read

With text spacing - even harder to parse

Without underline - still distinguised by bold and [ text ] - significantly easier to parse

[mr45144]

Apologies - I'm not sure why the quoted text has come through with an underline. It wasn't a deliberate attempt at irony

[mitchellevan]

Thanks for submitting the feedback. I'm not responding yet to the substance of your issue, but just to this comment:

Apologies - I'm not sure why the quoted text has come through with an underline. It wasn't a deliberate attempt at irony

The problem was unescaped HTML. I edited your issue, changing <ins> to <ins>

[mitchellevan]

Gathering some details about this. @mr45144 , on which browser and operating system did you observe the content?

For comparison, in Windows 10 I see the following in Chrome 126:

and in Firefox 127:

[maryjom]

This is a style that is set by the W3C document style in the CSS used for the <INS> markup used to indicate inserted/replacement content. This CSS is not set by this document, and cannot be overridden by the document. Will bring this up once again with the group responsible for setting this CSS style. It used to be worse where one couldn't tell apart links from inserted content.

[mr45144]

It was noted in Edge and explored further in Chrome - both on Windows. On both font size is medium but I think the OS is set to 125%.
@maryjom More than happy for this to be closed in the doc and moved to the appropriate board.

[daniel-montalvo]

Hi @fantasai

Is this something we could make easier to read? My understanding is that the issue happens when large chunks of text are wrapped in ins elements, but it would be worth for you to look at the whole context of this issue for greater details.

Thanks much.