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Re: What about semi-bold?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Feb 14, 2019 3:39PM

WCAG doesn't address this. They simply set the "large text" threshold
with "bold" text - generally defined as 700 weight in CSS. Of course
different font faces will have different weights and boldness when
bold, so common sense is in order.

I would suggest that if text has less than 4.5:1 contrast and the only
thing that would allow it to pass WCAG is for it to be made bold and
thus "large text", that it probably has pretty low contrast
regardless.

Jared