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

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From: Hans Hillen
Date: Sep 19, 2014 4:14PM

As others have mentioned: with a proper responsive design, browser zooming
will yield the best results; It will cause the responsive break points to
kick in, leading to a neat easy to read, word wrapped, large text, large
image, vertical column of content that does not require any horizontal
scrolling.

These responsive breakpoints won't trigger when using text-only zoom,
although it shouldn't be to difficult to manually script this behavior.

It's also a lot easier to convince a design / dev team to invest in the
responsive approach and easier for them to implement than it is to fully
support text resizing in their original design, especially in complex
layouts.

Having said that, if the design is clean and fully responsive it's
relatively easy to also have it support text sizing up to 200%.






On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 11:29 PM, Rakesh P < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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:
> >>
> >> 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
> >> Practice Lead - Accessibility CoE
> >> Mobile: 1-623-419-3582 | 1-678-294-4742
> >> Digital Accessibility Blog
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