Look into other kinds of text alignment that users find hard to read

[EoinShaughnessy]

What

Look into other kinds of text alignment that users find hard to read.

Why

In our typography guidance, the 'Text alignment override classes section' advises users to avoid:

• aligning body copy to the right
• 'justifying' blocks of text so that they're aligned to the left and right margins

However, we've had user feedback about other kinds of alignment that give users difficulties:

Short centre aligned text is also, not only hard to find but liable to be missed entirely by people using magnification concentrating on the left side of the page. Multiline centred text also requires finding the start of each line in a different place, especially difficult at high magnifications.

Who needs to work on this

Accessibility specialist, content designer, maybe some other roles (user researcher? technical writer?)

Who needs to review this

Not sure

Done when

• [ ] We have updated our guidance to include advice on centred text and any other alignment issues worth mentioning

[mia-allers-gds]

I looked at the guidance on this page and it seems to be aligned with the user feedback from the brief. I haven't found any other text alignment issues to add, so I think this issue can be closed