RE: Combine 79, 78, and 74 SCs? (was Re: Mechanism Disclaimer)

+1. I like it!

 

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From: David MacDonald [mailto:david100@sympatico.ca] 
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Subject: Re: Combine 79, 78, and 74 SCs? (was Re: Mechanism Disclaimer)

 

I think it's getting better... this seems the easiest to understand 

 

For those web technologies that allow user agents to change the foreground and background colors, font family​, ​or the spacing between characters, words, lines, or paragraphs, nothing is done in the content to prevent these modifications. 

 

 

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 2:41 PM Gregg C Vanderheiden <greggvan@umd.edu <mailto:greggvan@umd.edu> > wrote:

 

On Jan 22, 2017, at 2:26 PM, White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org <mailto:jjwhite@ets.org> > wrote:

 

Features of the technologies relied upon by the content are not used in a way that would restrict the ability, if any, of user agents to change foreground and background colors, font family​, ​or the spacing between characters, words, lines, or paragraphs

 

 

I think this is the best of the lot — but it still is hard to interpret if you don’t know in advance what it is trying to get at -  AND why it is written with so many clauses…. 

 

 

Here is an explanation (as far as I understand it) for what we are saying and why. 

 

Not all technologies have a way for users to change the foreground and background colors, font family​, ​or the spacing between characters, words, lines, or paragraphs.  But for those that do, such as HTML for text content, the Author should not use features in a way that would prevent these modifications. 

 

Hmmmm

 

how about.

aaFor those web technologies that allow user agents to change the foreground and background colors, font family​, ​or the spacing between characters, words, lines, or paragraphs, nothing is done in the content to prevent these modifications. 

 

OR 

Web content technologies are not used in a way that would prevent users from changing the foreground and background colors, font family​, ​or the spacing between characters, words, lines, or paragraphs, where the technologies used can allow such changes. 

 

 

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