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

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From: Sean Curtis
Date: Sep 16, 2014 4:06PM

Forgive me if I'm way off base here - I haven't read the entire conversation, but did you try specifying the height of the image backing the image map in EMs or REMs rather than pixels? Doing that should scale it with the text size increases as well as zooming.

It might not be maintainable to do constantly unless you use JavaScript.

Cheers,

Sean

> On 17 Sep 2014, at 7:44 am, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Jared,
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> I read through your comments on Alastairc article from 2013 where you very clearly articulated an acceptable solution for text resizing:
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> Level AA
> - Zoom at 200%
> - Text sizing at 150%
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> 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%.
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> I find it hard ti digest that when designing for RWD wouldn't HTML/CSS technologies provide support to resize text?
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> 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.
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