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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Apr 9, 2017 8:51AM

Unless you are producing content that can only be exclusively accessed
in a closed environment, where e.g. Firefox is not availalbe for
download, that argument does not really apply, see the definition of
accessibility supported
http://www.w3.org/TR/UNDERSTANDING-WCAG20/conformance.html
)if the content works in one widely support user agent available for
download or does not cost a person with a disability any more than a
person without, both are true for Firefox and Chrome, although Chrome
has spotty accessibility support).
Users are able to update mainstream browsers are little to no cost,
and there are many reasons why they should which have nothing to do
with accessibility (e.g. security).
As long as your content is coded according to standard and works with
a mainstream agent at least 1 or 2 versions back (I go with 2), you
should be fine. Requiring that your web content works with IE 6 or
Jaws 9 is not an matter of accessibility conformance, as long as NVDA
and Firefox are available to the user.



On 4/7/17, Katie Haritos-Shea < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
> Thanks for that update Patrick!
>
> Katie Haritos-Shea
> 703-371-5545
>
> On Apr 7, 2017 6:06 PM, "Patrick H. Lauke" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
>> On 07/04/2017 21:37, Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL wrote:
>>
>>> Browser zoom may not work in *all* cases, especially in the case of
>>> mobile content. Keep in mind that for mobile devices, content that
>>> developers have built for mobile web content/sites can put *constraints*
>>> on
>>> the ability for content to zoom and the viewport size. So you still need
>>> to
>>> test and keep a watch on that.
>>>
>>
>> With a follow-up that recent versions of iOS/Safari, as well as Windows 10
>> Mobile/Edge, now ignore any meta viewport restrictions that stop users
>> from
>> zooming by default. Other current mobile browsers have a user setting for
>> users to explicitly override this (Windows Phone 8 in OS settings > ease
>> of
>> access > allow zooming on all web content; Chrome settings > Accessibility
>> > Force enable zoom; Opera settings > Force enable zoom; Firefox settings
>> > >
>> Accessibility > Always enable zoom; Samsung Internet settings > Manual
>> zoom).
>>
>> But yes, for older mobile browsers (e.g. older versions of iOS, old
>> Android/Browser, etc) still relevant advice.
>>
>> P
>> --
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>>
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>> >> >> >> >>
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