# ✎ Technique: Text spacing

**Source**: https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/technique-text-spacing
**Parent**: https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/practices

Being able to change not just a site's text size but also its text spacing can be helpful to people with different disabilities. People with a variety of print disabilities (including low vision, dyslexia, other cognitive disabilities) can benefit from being able to increase the spacing between lines, words, and/or letters on their own device. When spacing is increased, the content should not become less readable, or unreadable, due to content overlapping or being completely hidden.

## Examples

### ✗ Bad example: Non responsive interface.

The effect of changing the text spacing and line height on a non-responsive interface: some of the headline text of each item no longer displays

### ✓ Good example: Responsive interface.

The effect of changing the text spacing and line height on a responsive interface: the headline text of each item always displays.

(Source: [Knowbility article on text spacing](https://knowbility.org/blog/2018/WCAG21-1412TextSpacing/))

See also:

- [Techniques](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/page-categories/techniques)
- [Text](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/accessibility-topics/text)
- [Custom stylesheet](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/access-technologies/custom-stylesheet)
- [Presentation - Developers ✎](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/content/presentation-developers)
- [Support flexibility and adaptation ✎](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/content/support-flexibility-and-adaptation)
- [Perceivable](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/principles/perceivable)
- [Low vision](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/disabilities/low-vision)
- [Cognitive](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/disabilities/cognitive)
- [Dyslexia](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/disabilities/dyslexia)
- [CSS](https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/web-technologies/css)