Does text-overflow fail reflow and/or text-spacing

Hi,

I am currently in the process of auditing our software and ran into some elements where _more_ of the text will be truncated when zooming or changing text spacing.
These elements display the first few words of (end-user provided) text truncated to the available width using the CSS ‘text-overflow’ property.

The reflow and text-spacing criteria mention that a user should be able to zoom or increase text spacing without loss of content, so, in a strict interpretation, these elements would fail.
When I’m in a lenient mood, I feel that the truncated text was already not expected to be provided in it’s entirety, so the additional loss of content would be acceptable.

Would you fail or accept this situation?
Would it be worth adding this situation to the reflow/text-spacing understanding documents?

Regards,
Joppe Kroon

Received on Friday, 5 July 2019 17:38:21 UTC