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

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From: _mallory
Date: Jun 8, 2015 2:01AM

On Sun, Jun 07, 2015 at 03:40:56PM +0100, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> 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...

I first saw this in opera (presto), before rem existed. But I don't believe I
see it in all browsers today.

_mallory