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

From: White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:37:44 +0000
To: David MacDonald <david@can-adapt.com>, 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>
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From: David MacDonald [mailto:david@can-adapt.com]
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2017 12:19 PM

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
[Jason] Two problems:

  1.  It doesn’t address Andrew’s scenario in which the spacing parameters supplied by the author already meet or exceed those requested in the success criterion. I agree with Andrew that the content should pass the SC in such a case.
  2.  It doesn’t eliminate the use of the word “essential”, which is not here used in accordance with its WCAG definition.


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