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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 11:48AM

> However, those sites will fail for all users with devices that have a screen in between breakpoints...so they're just examples of broken sites, full stop. No?

I don't think so. There is another scale factor going on that must be considered with zoom. In my tests on the desktop changing my browser window and using zoom both affect the width and trigger breakpoints, however, zoom scales the page contents while shrinking the window's width does not cause an increase in text size. So, while in theory devices with odd widths could have problems IMO is it not likely because they site would just drop down to the lower breakpoint and the font sizes would remain what they were set for that lower breakpoint. With zoom, the text sizes increase but the lower resolution breakpoint remains causing the issue.

Jonathan

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