bug(typography): body-medium and body-small line heights are not accessible
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Description
### Is this a regression?
- [ ] Yes, this behavior used to work in the previous version
### The previous version in which this bug was not present was
_No response_
### Description
To meet criterion 1.4.12 of WCAG 2.1 https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/text-spacing.html body-medium and body-small type should have higher line heights
Current body-medium line height: 20px
Accessible body-medium line height for the same font size: 22px
Current body-small line height: 16px
Accessible body-small line height for the same font size: 18px
### Expected Behavior
Accessible line heights for default typography
### Actual Behavior
Inaccessible line heights for body-medium and body-small typography
### Environment
- Angular: 18
- Material: 3
- Browser(s): Any
- Operating System (e.g. Windows, macOS, Ubuntu): Any
Contributor guide
Research direction
No file or test is named. Search the default typography definitions for body-medium and body-small, then verify how their current line heights are set. Done means body-medium uses 22px and body-small uses 18px, with relevant typography checks passing.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- angular, typescript
- Domain
- accessibility, frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100