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

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From: Rakesh P
Date: Sep 19, 2014 5:29AM

Dear All,

Thank you for your inputs.

Thanks,
Rakesh

On 9/17/14, Sean Curtis < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> 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,
>>
>> 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%
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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%.
>>
>> 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
>> Practice Lead - Accessibility CoE
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