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Comment LC-1067: Comment Shortname:; Commenter: Gian Sampson-Wild <gian@tkh.com.au>; Message-id:; Section of the document concerned:

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Commenter's response (URI):; Comment:
Relative vs absolute units: There should be a WCAG2 equivalent at Level 1 for this WCAG1 checkpoint. The ability to change the text size in a page is very important to people with vision impairments. The ability to resize tables according to the size of the screen is very important to people using PDAs

Proposed Change:

Create a new SC outlawing absolute units (I am happy to write this); Related issues: (space separated ids); WG Notes: [TEAMB] Discussed in the 25 January 2007 telecon: accepted by unanimous consent http://www.w3.org/WAI/GL/2007/01/25-wai-wcag-minutes.html {accept} SEE LC-469 Response: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-comments-wcag20/2007Jul/0130.html; Resolution: Although resizing is primarily a user agent function, we have added new success criteria to address the author's responsibility for supporting text resizing: Level AA: Visually rendered text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent and down to 50 percent without loss of content or functionality. Level AAA: Visually rendered text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent and down to 50 percent without loss of content or functionality and in a way that does not require the user to scroll horizontally.; (Please make sure the resolution is adapted for public consumption)