Re: Should the boxes around blocks of text in the FPWD have Sufficient contrast under the new SC. WAS: Re: CFC: Publish WCAG 2.1 FPWD from Alastair Campbell on 2017-02-23 (w3c-wai-gl@w3.org from January to March 2017)

From: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2017 15:04:39 +0000
To: David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca>, Gregg Vanderheiden RTF <gregg@raisingthefloor.org>
CC: "w3c-waI-gl@w3. org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
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> oh oh... there are a lot of "essential" instances in SCs 

I would separate "X is essential to Y', from "essential" in the more general sense.

At one end of the scale, this is quite specific:
"graphical objects that are essential for understanding"

It is about an attribute of the content, not the user's goal or the pages's purpose.
 
For me, it gets shakey is when you have to make assumptions about what the user (or site owner?) thinks is essential for that page. (Which Jason covered so I won't expound on that.)

Cheers,

-Alastair

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