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Re: Making mobile view available to all as way of constraining a11y testing costs

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 4, 2018 4:05PM

> This strategy is just a way of dealing with the reality that, in an auditing context, there are limited resources available for testing, and a seemingly growing number of breakpoints as the largest possible viewport size increases. What do you think?

Because I use low resolution on desktop or some browser zoom I find myself almost always entering mobile breakpoints on my desktop . In my experience page zoom not only changes the viewport with but also the scale factor. So the text size of sites is different at a width of 533 then it would be by zooming to say 150% that gets me to 533 (number made up) but also has a scale factor of 1.5. Thus there is a larger opportunity for non-fluid responsive sites to have issues such as text that is cutoff or overflows over other text or text over a different background without sufficient contrast. A truly fluid site would not have these issues but in my experience most sites really aren't truly fluid but instead are a series of breakpoints.

Jonathan

Jonathan Avila
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Level Access, inc. (formerly SSB BART Group, inc.)
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