Interesting, I never considered the fact that it doesn't need to be automated. It was just one property check so it seemed small enough.
Obviously, if you are tasked to automate it, I'm not your boss so not my job to countermand... however, industry wide there is always that consideration of SHOULD I automate it... will it give me an ROI worth the time investment? While lots of folks like to automate every little UI check, I typically steer clear because, as a human being, if I load up a web page, I can see pretty quickly (like within a couple of seconds) where the problems are on the page. Meanwhile, writing automation code to check all properties aginst particular values and alignments and tab stops and fonts and so forth.... that's a lot of code for not a lot of benefit. UX is important for software, but it won't cause the stock market to crash if the banking app doesn't have the right font when the new release goes out... ;)
