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

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 7, 2015 8:40AM

On 07/06/2015 13:35, Karl Groves wrote:
> Whitney,
>
> That's due to the move toward rem units. When a site is built using
> rem units the breakpoints can be triggered when the page is zoomed.

Actually, nothing to do with rem units. When zooming in desktop
browsers, the internal representation of the viewport changes
accordingly (so say an 800px wide window zoomed to 200% has an effective
viewport of 400px), so triggers different @media viewport sizes. Unless
I'm misunderstanding the original question...

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