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Re: Increase Font Size vs. Zoom

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From: Dawn Budge
Date: Nov 14, 2012 3:01AM

If I remember right, scroll means the scrollbars always appear, whereas
overflow: auto will make the scrollbars appear when it becomes necessary.
And as they are part of the browser UI, they are accessible to assistive
technology and keyboards. The reason you don't see them that often is more
to do with how they look. (It is possible to build your own scroller with
JavaScript by the way, just so long as you remember to make the scroll
control focussable with the keyboard and listen for keydown on the arrow
keys in addition to mouse clicks and drags.)

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From: "Greg Gamble" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2012 6:41 PM
To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Increase Font Size vs. Zoom

Could overflow be set to scroll?

Greg Gamble
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