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Re: Browser zooming sufficient for WCAG 1.4.4 (resize text)

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From: Iaffaldano, Michelangelo
Date: Jun 3, 2015 12:41PM

It is a common misconception that page zooming has made the earlier recommendation for relative units obsolete. In usability testing I observed users with limited vision who still enlarge the font without zooming the page, in hopes of minimizing horizontal scrolling, which is so disorienting.

Michelangelo