Re: Revert Adapting text language replacing "adapt" with "change"

@Andrew

Alastair has restated my concern well:

"It should be specified in such a way that means you apply those changes,
and it should just work. Not that you apply those changes and *then* have
to change more to make it work."

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On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
wrote:

> Thanks David.
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> My concern is that your language isn’t say “by changing all of the
> following and nothing else” but that seems to be what you are expecting.
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> It would help me to understand exactly what steps you envision a user
> would need to follow to achieve the following four items, and provide an
> example page that shows this working as you envision it.
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> Thanks,
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> AWK
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> Capturing my concern as we closed out the call.
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> In responding to a comment #409 requesting we fix the definition of
> adapting text, we reworded the SC to remove adapt
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> If the technologies being used allow the user agent to change text style
> properties, the following can be achieved with no loss of essential content
> or functionality:
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> * the 4 things
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> The problem with this wording is that
>
> ​ an author could get a pass on this if the only way to achieve the 4
> things was to change box properties and a bunch of other CSS tweaks in
> addition to those 4 things.​ I propose instead we go back to the previous
> language which was painfully and carefully crafted, and swap out "adapt"
> for "change"
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> If the technologies being used allow the user agent to change text style
> properties, then no loss of essential content or functionality occurs by
> changing all of the following:
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> * the 4 things
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> ​It is only 10 characters longer than the new proposal, and it preserves
> the word ALL, as well as ensuring the end user would only have to over ride
> those 4 text properties, and wouldn't be required to write a bunch of other
> CSS like box padding, margins etc...​
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> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
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