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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 8, 2019 6:03AM

On 08/06/2019 12:58, Jonathan Avila wrote:
> While I'd agree that SVG text rendering today doesn't meet the intent of 1.4.5 I'd say that your assertion that the nuance is not in the normative text of the SC and as the normative text is written there is a strong case to say it's not a fail of the success criteria (unfortunately). Definitely something that impacts the user though and worth noting and recommendation changes both to user agents and when use is widespread by authors.

I'd posit that the normative SC text (and the definition for "images of
text" which essentially boils down to "text in a bitmap") didn't even
consider SVG text or similar at the time.

For what it's worth, I've filed this issue against WCAG to see if this
can be discussed and potentially clarified in future

https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/773

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