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Re: Wave alert: Very small text

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From: glen walker
Date: Aug 4, 2020 7:43AM

Sounds like you might need a refresher on WCAG and how accessibility tools
work. There are a lot of tools out there. Some try to report only WCAG
failures, some report "suspicious" code that requires a manual inspection,
and others include "best practices" failures. For those that only report
WCAG failures, the tool often misses a lot of failures because oftentimes
there's not a programmatic way to guarantee it's a failure. There are CSS
and JS and HTML tricks you can do that might fool a scanning tool so rather
than risk reporting a false positive, it doesn't report the problem. For
tools that report suspicious code or best practice failures, if you inspect
the code and it's ok, the tool is still going to report it.

The main point is that you're trying to create an experience that is as
inclusive to everyone as possible. You're not trying to get a perfect
score from a tool.

As Steve said, fight the battles you can win.