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Re: WCAG 1.4.8: horizontal scrolling

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From: Simius Puer
Date: Jan 20, 2011 9:18AM

"Text can be resized without assistive..." ...not the containing element
that is where I think you are getting confused. If a user chooses to blow
up the entire screen so it is wider than a regular view-port then they will
be used to scrolling horizontally.

It's a combination of many things but basically if your text is allowed to
re-flow naturally (e.g. you have no containers with a "height" on them) then
you should be okay. Obviously there are a lot of other factors but just
apply a good helping of common sense ;]