title: Large text with text-shadow only on two sides compliant with WCAG AA requirements is acceptable?
body: <p>So I'm trying to apply text-shadow to white large text over a gradient background in order to meet the WCAG AA contrast ratio requirements. I am following procedure of checking the gradient where contrast is lowest. The foreground is #e1dee6 while the text is white.
  On its own it does not meet the requirements so I am adding a text-shadow of #7f7e83 which brings the ratio at 3:1 which is acceptable, however the text does not look well with the shadow on all four sides so I'm wondering if two sides are accepted as you can see in the attached image:</p>
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/f6S6p.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer">image showing the two side text-shadow of #7f7e83 colour applied to white text over a #e1dee6 colour background</a></p>
  <p>The bottom and right are ok but the left and top come at about 1.45:1.
  Is two sides ok or all 4 sides of the text need to meet the WCAG AA requirements ?</p>
  <p><strong>UPDATE:</strong></p>
  <p>I found another related question on stackexchange and according to the comments, quoting slugolicios here:</p>
  <p>&quot;just make sure the drop shadow goes all the way around the letter (more of an outline than a shadow). if the shadow is only on 2 sides, then it will still fail on the sides that don't have a shadow and will be an overall failure (even though two sides conformed)&quot;</p>
  <p><a href="https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/123863/do-drop-shadows-count-for-accessibility">https://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/123863/do-drop-shadows-count-for-accessibility</a></p>
  <p>Until there is official mentioning that text-shadow on 2 sides is enough to pass the WCAG, I'll have to take this advice.</p>