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

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From: _mallory
Date: Jun 4, 2015 12:10AM

On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 07:01:44PM +0000, EA Draffan wrote:
> I have to agree total zoom is not ideal for all users. For those who have reading difficulties and do not need image zoom, just increasing the size of text can be enormously helpful. This is also critical for reading skills when coping with cursive texts such as Arabic, which also has no capitals. We have this attribute as part of ATbar (https://www.atbar.org/) because of the trend of browsers to just offer total zoom. Increasing line spacing can also help some readers.

That, and the reason I stuck with Firefox for as long as I did was
because zoomed images, being blurry things often next to text,
made reading harder (my eyes kept seeing blur in the periphery and
made me think all my vision was blurry, is the best I can explain
it).

cheers,
_mallory