Standards
Two clauses of ADA §703.5 on a visual sign. Nine of §703.2 and §703.3 on a room sign.
The page names what the engine checks, on whose authority and what it leaves alone. A clause of the ADA is law and the engine withholds the print file when it fails. A baseline is WayX's own threshold. Both are labeled as what they are, here and in the product.
Law: ADA 2010 Standards §703.5
Federal, and it applies in every US state. These two clauses are cited, checked and enforced: while one fails, there is no print file.
Character height
The cap height of each reading task against the floor §703.5.5 sets for its viewing distance and mounting band. The table prints two columns that disagree; WayX applies the stricter and says so on the row, beside the measured cap, the floor and the margin between them.
Mounting height
The declared mounting height, finish floor to character baseline, against the minimum §703.5.6 sets for visual characters. The standard prints 40 in and 1015 mm; 40 in is 1016 mm, so the stricter of the two applies. Left undeclared, the row says the clause was not checked, and that withholds the print file too.
A baseline, and advice for EU places
These are not legal findings, and the engine does not present them as any. It labels each row for what it is, so nobody reads a WayX threshold as a verdict under a standard.
Text contrast
A WayX baseline, not a legal finding. The figures come from WCAG 2.1 success criterion 1.4.3, and the engine labels the row as a baseline.
ISO 3864-1 safety layouts
Where a sign is placed in the EU, its safety layouts are measured against ISO 3864-1 as advice: the row never counts as an issue and never withholds the print file. Under the US or another country no ISO 3864-1 row appears. Its thresholds are marked unverified until read from the licensed standard.
What it does not check
The rest of §703.5, named by the engine itself.
Meeting two clauses is not meeting the section, and the verdict WayX prints says so. These seven are yours to satisfy:
- 703.5.1Finish and contrast
- 703.5.2Case
- 703.5.3Style
- 703.5.4Character proportions
- 703.5.7Stroke thickness
- 703.5.8Character spacing
- 703.5.9Line spacing
Proportions (§703.5.4) and stroke thickness (§703.5.7) are measured when you upload a font, but not on the sign itself.
State building codes are the same story. California and Texas have been read for §703.5, but WayX does not check them on the directional sign: it reports a local code as unchecked rather than assuming it is met. Under California the room sign is also held to CBC 11B-703, in part: 11B-703.2.4, 11B-703.3.2 and 11B-703.5.7 on rows of their own.
Cited, not scored
Every check is met or not on its own row.
No invented score, no rating to argue with. A procurement team sees which clause was checked, which figure it was checked against, and which rows WayX calls a baseline rather than a finding.