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

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jun 25, 2015 7:10AM

You don't have to look too far to find responsive sites that fail browser zoom via SC 1.4.4. In my experience simply because a site is responsive with break points doesn't mean that when browser zoomed is applied text won't be truncated. For example absolute and fixed positioned content can be very problematic. Also, pages that snap when you scroll are famous for vertically truncating the text in between break points preventing the user from scrolling to it. So while things may work at a given breakpoint I have concerns with text being truncated at zoom levels that lie between breakpoints. An easy example is a container with a max-height and overflow hidden that is set appropriate at each breakpoint but when zoom is applied between breakpoints, the text is truncated.

Jonathan

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