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Re: Scaleable fonts for Priority 2 WAI guidelines

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From: Rahul Gonsalves
Date: May 14, 2008 9:10AM

Apologies Paul, I included a terribly constructed sentence.

On 14-May-08, at 7:49 PM, Paul Collins wrote:

> 2008/5/14 Rahul Gonsalves < <EMAIL REMOVED> >:

>> Guideline 1.4.5 states that using images of text (if using a
>> background image (not SIFR)) is allowed - "The image of text can be
>> visually customized to the user's requirements."

> You could still use sIFR for 1.4.5 thought, right? Just that you
> have the option to use images as well.

_I_ take Guideline 1.4.5 to mean that text is preferred to images
_however_, if you want to customise the way things look, then you are
free to do so. One can definitely use sIFR; my badly phrased sentence
was meant to mean that sIFR is not an _image_, and therefore,
Guideline 1.1.1 (non-text content) does not apply here.

Best,
- Rahul.