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

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Feb 23, 2016 1:49PM

Responsive design generally has the effect of allowing for 200 percent zoom or more on text -- however I'm not sure that is a given. On the desktop at least zooming in the browser changes the width of the window and increases the scale. In theory a developer could use fixed font sizes at different break points or do something that caused the text to change but not actually reach 200% at 200 percent zoom. Although web browser scaling above 200 might be reached 200% through scroll bars.

As an aside on a mobile browser where you can pinch zoom (when not blocked by the site or forced by the browser ) the ability to resize text alone is restricted to certain browsers or sites that use the system fonts that support the text size settings on the platform. So g142 allows mobile sites to meet the success criteria on small screens where text resize alone migh be more difficult.

I totally support text resize without zoom and believe it is a user requirement and need.

Jon

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> On Feb 23, 2016, at 3:22 PM, Snahendu Bhattacharya < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Agreed Patrick!
>
> I was mentioning about non-responsive web pages, where relative
> measurements of font and container sizes are not maintained, would have the
> risk of horizontal scrolling. Also, if user is using the 'browser zoom
> only', some user agents will introduce horizontal scroll.
>
> So according to me, 'zoom text' have 3 aspects.
>
> 1. User should be able to zoom the 'text only' besides browser zoom.
> 2. While zoomed, content should be visible, readable and understandable.
> 3. User should have a definite way to zoom the text by user agents.
>
> Question is, in other words, are we encouraging responsive implementation?
> As WCAG doesn't talk about that clearly but indicates to the same.
>> On Feb 23, 2016 3:04 PM, "Patrick H. Lauke" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>>
>>> On 23/02/2016 19:10, Snahendu Bhattacharya wrote:
>>>
>>> Also, browser zoom introduces a good amount of horizontal scrolling, which
>>> itself causes a barrier in accessing the page.
>>
>> Not if the responsive approach was done properly, as it would then simply
>> trigger different media query breakpoints, and the fluid approach (which is
>> part of RWD's core tents) should also avoid horizontal scrolling.
>>
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