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acknowledgements.md

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### Active Participants of the WCAG2ICT Task Force Involved in the Development of This Document
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* Shadi Abou-Zahra (Amazon)
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* Charles Adams (Oracle Corporation)
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* Bruce Bailey (U.S. Access Board)
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* Bruce Bailey (Invited Expert)
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* Fernanda Bonnin (Microsoft Corporation)
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* Devanshu Chandra (Deque Systems, Inc.)
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* Michael Cooper (formerly W3C Staff)
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* Phil Day (NCR Atleos)
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* Mitchell Evan (TPGi)
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* Tamsin Ewing (W3C Staff)
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* Olivia Hogan-Stark (NCR Voyix)
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* Thorsten Katzmann (IBM Corporation)
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* Chris Loiselle (Oracle Corporation)
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* Loïc Martínez Normand (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
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* Jennifer Strickland (MITRE Corporation)
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* Shawn Thompson (Shared Services Canada)
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* Bryan Trogdon (Google LLC)
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* Gregg Vanderheiden (Raising the Floor)
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* Gregg Vanderheiden (W3C Invited Expert)
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### Participants in the AG Working Group that Actively Reviewed and Contributed
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* Detlev Fischer (Invited Expert)
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* Mike Gifford (Invited Expert)
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* Michael Gower (IBM Corporation)
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* Jan Jaap de Groot (Invited Expert)
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* Jan Jaap de Groot (Abra)
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* Shawn Henry (W3C Staff)
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* Andrew Kirkpatrick (Adobe)
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* Andrew Kirkpatrick (formerly Adobe)
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* Patrick Lauke (TetraLogical)
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* Todd Libby (Invited Expert)
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* David MacDonald (Invited Expert)
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* Rachael Bradley Montgomery (Library of Congress)
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* Lori Oakley (Oracle Corporation)
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* Scott O'Hara (Microsoft Corporation)
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* Kimberly Patch (Invited Expert)
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* Melanie Philipp (Deque Systems, Inc.)
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* Melanie Philipp (Invited Expert)
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* Julie Rawe (Understood)
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* Roberto Scano (Invited Expert)
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* Lisa Seeman-Kestenbaum (Invited Expert)
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* Lisa Seeman-Horwitz (Invited Expert)
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* Poornima Badhan Subramanian (Invited Expert)
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* Ben Tillyer (Invited Expert)
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* Ben Tillyer (University of Oxford)
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* Kevin White (W3C Staff)
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* Frankie Wolf (Level Access)
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* Frankie Wolf (Invited Expert)
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WCAG2ICT Task Force participants are also in the AG working group, but are not repeated here.
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### Other Participants of the WCAG2ICT Task Force
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* Anastasia Lanz (Deque Systems, Inc.)
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### Previous Contributors
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The following people contributed to the development of the 2013 WCAG2ICT Note.

comments-by-guideline-and-success-criterion.md

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The alternative can be provided directly in the [non-web document](#document) or [software](#software) – or provided in an alternate version that meets the success criterion.</div>
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The alternative can be provided directly in the [non-web document](#document) or [software](#software) – or provided in an alternate version that satisfies the success criterion.</div>
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See also the [Comments on Closed Functionality](#comments-on-closed-functionality).</div>
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Except for captions and images of text, text can be resized without loss of content or functionality and without assistive technology either up to 200 percent or, if the platform provides text resizing capabilities but it does not reach 200 percent for all text, up to the text sizing capabilities of the platform.
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It is best practice to use only fonts that allow for scaling without loss of quality (e.g. pixelized presentation). This applies in particular to embedded fonts.</div>
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[Content](#content-on-and-off-the-web) for which there are viewers or editors with a 200 percent zoom feature would automatically meet this success criterion when used with such viewers or editors, unless the content will not work with that zoom feature.</div>
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[Content](#content-on-and-off-the-web) for which there are viewers or editors with a 200 percent zoom feature would automatically satisfy this success criterion when used with such viewers or editors, unless the content will not work with that zoom feature.</div>
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The [Intent section in Understanding 1.4.4 Resize Text](http://section) refers to the ability to allow users to enlarge the text on screen at least up to 200% without needing to use [assistive technologies](#dfn-assistive-technologies). This means that the [non-web software](#software) provides some means for enlarging the text 200% (zoom or otherwise) without loss of [content](#content-on-and-off-the-web) or functionality, or that the non-web software works with the platform features to satisfy this success criterion.</div>
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The intent section refers to the ability for content to reflow (for vertical scrolling content at a width equivalent to 320 CSS pixels, or for horizontal scrolling content at a height equivalent to 256 CSS pixels) when user agent zooming is used to scale content or when the [viewport](#dfn-viewport) changes in width. For [non-web software](#software), this means that when users scale content, adjust the size of a window, dialog, or other resizable content area, or change the screen resolution, the content will reflow without loss of information or functionality, and without requiring scrolling in two dimensions; or that the application works with platform features that satisfy this success criterion.</div>
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The intent section refers to the ability for content to reflow (for vertical scrolling content at a width equivalent to 320 CSS pixels, or for horizontal scrolling content at a height equivalent to 256 CSS pixels) when user agent zooming is used to scale content or when the [viewport](#dfn-viewport) changes in width. For [non-web software](#software), this means that when users scale content, adjust the size of a window, dialog, or other resizable content area, or change the screen resolution, the content will reflow without loss of information or functionality, and without requiring scrolling in two dimensions; or that the non-web software works with platform features that satisfy this success criterion.</div>
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Non-web software will have more frequent cases where two-dimensional layout is relied upon for usage or meaning than what occurs on the Web. For example:
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As described in the WCAG intent, the name of a [non-web software application](#software) or [non-web document](#document) (e.g. document, media file, etc.) is a sufficient title if it describes the topic or purpose.</div>
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Although not required by this success criterion, ensuring that individual windows or screens have a title (where that title describes the topic or purpose) addresses the user needs identified in the Understanding Success Criterion 2.4.2 Intent section, and is generally considered a best practice.</div>
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While some users may find it useful to have multiple ways to locate some groups of user interface elements within a non-web document or software program, this is not required by the success criterion (and may pose difficulties in some situations).</div>
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The definitions of “[set of documents](#set-of-documents)” and “[set of software programs](#set-of-software-programs)” in WCAG2ICT require every item in the set to be independently reachable, and so nothing in such a set can be a “step in a process” that can't be reached any other way. The purpose of the exception—that items in a process are exempt from meeting this success criterion—is achieved by the definition of set.</div>
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The definitions of “[set of documents](#set-of-documents)” and “[set of software programs](#set-of-software-programs)” in WCAG2ICT require every item in the set to be independently reachable, and so nothing in such a set can be a “step in a process” that can't be reached any other way. The purpose of the exception—that items in a process are exempt from satisfying this success criterion—is achieved by the definition of set.</div>
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Where software platforms provide a “locale / language” setting, applications that use that setting and render their interface in that “locale / language” would satisfy this success criterion. Applications that do not use the platform “locale / language” setting but instead use an [accessibility-supported](#dfn-accessibility-supported) method for exposing the human language of the [software](#software) would also satisfy this success criterion. Applications implemented in technologies where [assistive technologies](#dfn-assistive-technologies) cannot determine the human language and that do not support the platform “locale / language” setting may not be able to satisfy this success criterion in that locale / language.</div>
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Where software platforms provide a “locale / language” setting, applications that use that setting and render their interface in that “locale / language” would satisfy this success criterion. Applications that do not use the platform “locale / language” setting but instead use an [accessibility-supported](#dfn-accessibility-supported) method for exposing the human language of the [non-web software](#software) would also satisfy this success criterion. Applications implemented in technologies where [assistive technologies](#dfn-assistive-technologies) cannot determine the human language and that do not support the platform “locale / language” setting may not be able to satisfy this success criterion in that locale / language.</div>
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Examples of programmatic identification include language metadata or markup. There are some [non-web software](#software) and [non-web document](#document) technologies where there is no assistive technology supported method for marking the language for the different passages or phrases in the non-web document or software, and it would not be possible to satisfy this success criterion with those technologies.</div>
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