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Re: WCAG 2.0 SC 1.4.4 - Text Zoom Vs Browser Zoom

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From: Pooja.Nahata
Date: Sep 16, 2014 3:44PM

Jared,

I read through your comments on Alastairc article from 2013 where you very clearly articulated an acceptable solution for text resizing:

Level AA
- Zoom at 200%
- Text sizing at 150%

Now, what authors of RWD website want to lean towards is if its RWD then test for only text with zoom at 200% (no text resize) and for non-responsive text resize at 200%.

I find it hard ti digest that when designing for RWD wouldn't HTML/CSS technologies provide support to resize text?

Do you'll have examples of RWD sites that support text resize? I know WCAG's S.C 1.4.4 accepts Page zoom but I cant and is true for most of us as we believe Accessibility is about user and beyond guidelines.

Pooja Nahata
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