- From: Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:36:07 +0100
- To: public-wcag2-issues@w3.org
Not an authoritative answer, but my take on this is that conceptually, "surrounding" and "adjacent" have subtly different meanings (though arguably both are still quite vague, as they still can be interpreted as meaning *visually* surrounding/adjacent, whereas technically this is about the programmatic context (e.g. the paragraph element, or other container element, that the word/phrase is in). "Surrounding" suggest more that the word/phrase is contained *inside* something, while "adjacent" would also apply to *sibling* text (e.g. in a separate paragraph that precedes/follows the current paragraph that the word/phrase is in). P -- Patrick H. Lauke * https://www.splintered.co.uk/ * https://github.com/patrickhlauke * https://flickr.com/photos/redux/ * https://mastodon.social/@patrick_h_lauke
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