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Re: Any official clarification on Text-only zoom and RWD?

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Feb 23, 2016 12:03PM

Jonathan Avila wrote:

> Yes, browser zoom which uniformly resizes text and other contents
> is sufficient according to the current WCAG sufficient techniques.

While this is sufficient for WCAG conformance, it very likely would
not be sufficient to provide an accessible experience for users who
increase just their text size.

We recommend supporting page zoom to 200% (it's nearly impossible to
fail this for HTML content) and 130-150% text sizing.

Jared