Re: Minor editorial proposal for WCAG 2.1: use of ordered vs unordered lists in SC text

I support numbers, unless there is a compelling reason not to on certain
SCs, although right now I can't think of any good reasons off hand.

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On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
wrote:

> On 02/08/2017 13:41, David MacDonald wrote:
>
>> I support the use of numbered lists because it allows the bullets to be
>> referenced to like this 3.3.4.2, or 3.3.4 #2
>>
>
> So...are you advocating changing all other non-numbered/bulleted lists to
> numbered ones? Or just leaving the weird inconsistency as is?
>
> P
>
> Cheers,
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>> On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 7:34 AM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk
>> <mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 02/08/2017 10:15, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
>>
>>     [...]
>>
>>         SCs with ordered/numbered lists: 1.4.8, 3.3.4, 3.3.6
>>
>>         I'd suggest changing the ordered lists to unordered would make
>>         most sense. And as I don't believe this change alters the
>>         meaning of the SCs' normative text, this is purely
>>         editorial/non-substantive.
>>
>>
>>     Addendum: I can see the potential argument that in the case of 1.4.8
>>     numbered list was used to emphasise that all of those conditions
>>     need to be true. However, that's not the case for 3.3.4 and 3.3.6
>>     (they're "at least one..." type lists there).
>>
>>     And if 3.3.4 and 3.3.6 were changed to unordered lists (to match all
>>     other instances of "at least one..." type lists), then 1.4.8 would
>>     be the only numbered list, so I'd argue it should also be changed to
>>     unordered, perhaps strengthening the prose before the list instead
>>     to emphasise that ALL conditions must be met.
>>
>>
>>     P
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