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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Using min-height and min-width to ensure sufficient target spacing</title>
<title>Using CSS to ensure sufficient target size</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/editors.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Using min-height and min-width to ensure sufficient target spacing</h1>
<h1>Using <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> to ensure sufficient target size</h1>
<section id="meta">
<h2>Metadata</h2>
<p id="id"></p>
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</section>
<section id="description">
<h2>Description</h2>
<p>The objective of this technique is to ensure that links in navigation or pagination menus will be spaced so that they fall within an area that measures at least 44 x 44 CSS pixels if the target area itself is smaller than that. The aim is to provide an adequate target clearance so the offset to adjacent targets is sufficient to prevent accidental pointer activation of adjacent targets.</p>

<p>The objective of this technique is to ensure that navigation or pagination links measure at least 44 by 44 CSS pixels. The aim is for target sizes to be large enough for users to easily activate them.</p>
</section>

<section id="examples">
<h2>Examples</h2>
<p>The following examples can be seen as rendered versions in the <a href="../../working-examples/css-pointer-spacing/">working examples</a>.</p>

<section class="example">
<h3>Using a display value of inline-block and min-height / width</h3>
<p>The first example shows a situation where the targets (in this case, the linked numbers in th pagination menu) are smaller than 44 x 44 CSS pixels. However, the list items that contain them have a minimum height and width of 44 px set, so that sufficient target spacing is assured.</p>
<figure id="pointer-spacing-block">
<img src="img/pointer-spacing-1.png" alt="A horizontal pagination component immediately above the search results." />
<figcaption>Example of using CSS to ensure enough spacing around targets</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Given the following HTML:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;nav class=&quot;pag&quot; aria-label=&quot;pagination menu&quot;&gt;
&lt;ol class=&quot;pagination-1&quot;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;previous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;next&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/nav&gt;</code></pre>
<p>The following CSS would ensure the minimum spacing is applied:</p>
<pre><code>ol.pagination-1 li {
display: inline-block;
min-width: 44px;
min-height: 44px;
}</code></pre>

</section>
<p>The following example can be seen as a <a href="../../working-examples/css-sufficient-target-size/">working example</a>.</p>
<section class="example">
<h3>Using a display value of flex and min-height / width</h3>
<p>The second example uses min-width and min-height on the targets (the linked numbers in the pagination menu) and not on the parent container, thereby meeting this target spacing Success Criterion and incidentally also the AAA Success Criterion 2.5.5 Target Size.</p>
<h3>Making pagination links at least 44px wide and 44px high</h3>
<p>This example uses <code class="language-css">min-width</code> and <code class="language-css">min-height</code> on the targets.</p>
<figure id="pointer-spacing-flex">
<img src="img/pointer-spacing-1.png" alt="A horizontal pagination component immediately above the search results. It looks identical to the previous example. " />
<figcaption>Example of using CSS to ensure enough spacing within targets</figcaption>
<img src="img/sufficient-spacing-pagination-2.png" alt="a pagination control with links for the previous page, pages 1 - 5, and the next page. Page 1 is visually highlighted." height="66" width="481">
<figcaption>Example of using CSS to ensure sufficiently large target size</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>Given the following HTML:</p>
<pre><code>&lt;nav class=&quot;pag&quot; aria-label=&quot;pagination menu&quot;&gt;
&lt;ol class=&quot;pagination-2&quot;&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;span&gt;previous&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#&quot;&gt;next&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/nav&gt;</code></pre>
<p>The following CSS ensures the minimum size is applied:</p>
<pre><code>ol.pagination-2 a,
ol.pagination-2 strong,
ol.pagination-2 span {
display: block;
line-height:44px;
min-height:44px;
min-width: 44px;
<h4>The HTML</h4>
<pre><code class="language-html">&lt;nav aria-label="pagination"&gt;
&lt;ol class="pagination-list"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a&gt;previous&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a aria-current="page"&gt;&lt;span class="visually-hidden"&gt;page &lt;/span&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/page-2"&gt;&lt;span class="visually-hidden"&gt;page &lt;/span&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/page-3"&gt;&lt;span class="visually-hidden"&gt;page &lt;/span&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/page-4"&gt;&lt;span class="visually-hidden"&gt;page &lt;/span&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/page-5"&gt;&lt;span class="visually-hidden"&gt;page &lt;/span&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/page-2"&gt;next&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/nav&gt;</code></pre>
<h4>The CSS</h4>
<pre><code class="language-css">.pagination-list{
display: flex;
gap: 0.5em;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
}

.pagination-list li{
padding: 0.25em;
}

.pagination-list a{
align-items: center;
display: flex;
justify-content: center;
min-height: 44px;
min-width: 44px;
padding: 0.5em;
}</code></pre>
</section>

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<section class="test-procedure">
<h3>Procedure</h3>

<p>For each target that cannot be enlarged by a mechanism, is not inline, and is not covered by the essential exception:</p>
<ul>
<li>Check that the target has enough spacing so that the space around it measures at least 44px width and 44px height.</li>
</ul>
<p>For each target that is not inline and is not covered by the essential exception:</p>
<ol>
<li>Check that the target measures at least 44px width and 44px height.</li>
</ol>
</section>
<section class="test-results">
<h3>Expected Results</h3>
<ul>
<li>Check #1 is true</li>
<li>#1 is true.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section id="related">
<h2>Related Techniques</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="adding-spacing-to-undersized-targets.html">CXXXXXX</a></li>
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</section>
<section id="resources">
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<h2>Resources</h2>

</section>
</section> -->
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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Using CSS to add spacing to undersized targets</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/editors.css"/>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Using <abbr title="Cascading Style Sheets">CSS</abbr> to add spacing to undersized targets</h1>
<section id="meta">
<h2>Metadata</h2>
<p id="id"></p>
<p id="technology">CSS</p>
<p id="type"></p>
</section>
<section id="applicability">
<h2>When to Use</h2>
<p>All technologies that support CSS and pointer input.</p>
</section>
<section id="description">
<h2>Description</h2>
<p>The objective of this technique is to ensure that links in navigation menus have enough spacing around them to meet the requirements of the spacing exception in Success Criterion 2.5.8, Target Size (Minimum). The aim is to provide an adequate target clearance to prevent accidental pointer activation of adjacent targets.</p>
</section>

<section id="examples">
<h2>Examples</h2>
<p>The following example can be seen as a <a href="../../working-examples/css-undersized-target-spacing/">working example</a>.</p>

<section class="example">
<h3>Adding spacing to undersized targets</h3>
<p>This example shows a situation where targets are smaller than 24 CSS pixels wide and 24 CSS pixels high. To meet Success Criterion 2.5.8, Target Size (Minimum), when a 24 CSS pixel diameter circle is centered on the bounding box of each target, the circles do not intersect another target or the circle for another undersized target. In this example, each target is 20 &#215; 20 CSS pixels, and a 4 CSS pixel gap is added between each target's parent container to create the minimum required spacing.</p>
<figure>
<img src="img/adding-spacing-undersized-targets.png" alt="a line of four interactive icons: back, forwards, email, home." height="21" width="102">
<figcaption>An example of inline undersized targets</figcaption>
</figure>
<h4>The <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr></h4>
<pre><code class="language-html">&lt;nav aria-label="controls"&gt;
&lt;ol class="navigation-controls"&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/previous-page/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Back" src="arrow-back.svg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/next-page/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Forward" src="arrow-forward.svg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;a href="mailto:[email protected]?subject=WCAG%20C42%20Technique"&gt;
&lt;img alt="Email" src="email.svg"&gt;
&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="/"&gt;&lt;img alt="Home" src="home.svg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;
&lt;/nav&gt;</code></pre>
<h4>The CSS</h4>
<pre><code class="language-css">.navigation-controls{
display: flex;
gap: 4px;
line-height: 0;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
}

.navigation-controls a{
display: inline-block;
line-height: 0;
}</code></pre>

</section>
</section>
<section id="tests">
<h2>Tests</h2>

<section class="test-procedure">
<h3>Procedure</h3>
<p>For each undersized target that has no equivalent, that isn't in a sentence or otherwise constrained by the line-height of non-target text, that hasn't had its size modified by the author, and whose presentation isn't essential:</p>
<ol>
<li>Draw a 24px diameter circle centered on the target's bounding box.</li>
<li>Check that the circle from #1 does not intersect any other target.</li>
<li>Check that the circle from #1 does not intersect any other undersized target's circle.</li>
</ol>
</section>
<section class="test-results">
<h3>Expected Results</h3>
<ul>
<li>#2 and #3 are true.</li>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section id="related">
<h2>Related Techniques</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="C42">C42</a></li>
</ul>

</section>
<!-- <section id="resources">
<h2>Resources</h2>
</section> -->
</body>
</html>
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<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Understanding Target Size (Enhanced)</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/sources.css" class="remove" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/editors.css" class="remove" />
</head>
<body>
<h1>Understanding SC 2.5.5 Target Size (Enhanced)</h1>
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<p>Each numbered item in this section represents a technique or combination of techniques that the <abbr title="Web Content Accessibility Guidelines">WCAG</abbr> Working Group deems sufficient for meeting this Success Criterion. However, it is not necessary to use these particular techniques. For information on using other techniques, see <a href="understanding-techniques" class="understanding">Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria</a>, particularly the "Other Techniques" section.</p>
<section id="sufficient">
<h3>Sufficient</h3>
<p class="instructions">Techniques that are sufficient to meet the Guideline or Success Criterion.</p>
<p class="instructions">Techniques that are sufficient to meet the Guideline or Success Criterion. See example in <a href="../../techniques/css/C42.html">C42, Using CSS to ensure sufficient target size.</a></p>
<section class="situation">
<ul>
<li>Ensuring that targets are at least 44 by 44 CSS pixels.</li>
<li>Ensuring inline links provide sufficiently large activation target.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
</section>
</section>
<section id="advisory">
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<section id="techniques">
<h2>Techniques for Target Size (Minimum)</h2>


<section id="sufficient">
<h3>Sufficient Techniques for Target Size (Minimum)</h3>

<ol>
<li>
<a href="../../techniques/css/C42" class="css">Using min-height and min-width to ensure sufficient target spacing</a>
<a href="../../techniques/css/C44.html" class="css">Using CSS to add spacing to undersized targets</a>
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