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Version 4.3 with the addition of WordPress Access Control change this.  The documentation you referenced is out of date.

I have configured Wordpress Access Control on our system to allow 'Editors', Authors' and 'Contributors' to access CiviCRM (i.e. the CiviCRM icon is visible in WordPress).

In order for Wordpress users other than administrators to access CiviCRM, you must enable access for other Wordpress Roles under WordPress Access Control.  You have to check "CiviCRM: access CiviCRM" for the role you want to grant access to.  It's the eighteenth item in the list of permission.

This just allows access to CiviCRM.  You allow need to grant access to whatever function you want users with a given WordPress role to have access to.