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

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From: Whitney Quesenbery
Date: Jun 6, 2015 8:06PM

I've started to see sites that respond to browser zoom in a responsive way.
It looks like they switch to a mobile template when the zoom level gets
high, so the text (and page overall) wrap well. Anyone else seeing this
trend?

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 2:10 AM _mallory < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
> > > > >