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

From: David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:36:03 -0500
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To: Andrew Kirkpatrick <akirkpat@adobe.com>
Cc: WCAG <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>, "Repsher, Stephen J" <stephen.j.repsher@boeing.com>, Michael Gower <michael.gower@ca.ibm.com>, Laura Carlson <laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com>
@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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> 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.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> AWK
>
>
>
> Capturing my concern as we closed out the call.
>
> In responding to a comment #409 requesting we fix the definition of
> adapting text, we reworded the SC to remove adapt
>
>
>
> 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:
>
> * the 4 things
>
>
> 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"
>
>
>
>
>
> 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:
>
> * the 4 things
>
>
>
> ​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...​
>
>
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> David MacDonald
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