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Re: text only zoom

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From: Olaf Drümmer
Date: Jun 17, 2016 9:05AM

I'd definitely urge everybody to put the focus on responsive design. Just scaling the text may cause all kinds of hard to avoid issues (and wouldn't a vision impaired user want to see icons and other such stuff enlarged at the same time?). Good responsive design ensure that when using zoom, all aspects are zoomed reasonably well in relationship to each other and in relation to the view port, and of course, horizontal scaling should never become necessary.

In retrospect, text only zooming appears more like a workaround from times, when only few people would understand what responsive design is.

Olaf


> On 17.06.2016, at 16:45, Joseph Sherman < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Following up on this: Given that FireFox is the only browser that allows for Text-only zoom; that responsive design eliminates horizontal scrolling; and almost none of the sites I visited worked perfectly with 200% text-only zoom- Should text-only zoom still be a (high) concern?
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