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Re: IE doesn't increase font-size in px

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From: Detlev Fischer
Date: Apr 15, 2013 11:11AM

Looking at WCAG 2.0, there's nothing that spells "fail" if a page needs horizontal scrolling after a page zoom of 200% - the success criterion only asks for text scaling "without loss of content or functionality". Having to scroll horizontally does not lead to a loss of content, it's just a maddening inconvenience.

A while back I had a look at 20 news portals, and only 6 sites had decent support of text-only resizing with minor problems:
http://www.bitvtest.eu/articles/article/lesen/resizing-news.html

Note that some of the sites included in the survey may have been updated since.
Regards,
Detlev