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

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jun 29, 2015 8:41AM

> So no, the only thing that matters here is if the developer considered that particular width of the screen, NOT whether they expected a particular size at this particular breakpoint.

When browser zoom is used there will be all sorts of odd widths. Authors cannot create breakpoints for all of these. What the author should do is allow for variance between breakpoints by designing the content to be fluid and not prevent overflow or wrapping. If a responsive site has truncated text when zoomed up to 200% then it would appear to be a WCAG failure to me. I don't buy the argument that the issue happens to other users and therefore isn't an accessibility issue because it doesn't happen to other users.

Jonathan

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