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

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 4, 2018 4:18PM

On 04/01/2018 23:05, Jonathan Avila wrote:
>> 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.

I'm sure we've had this conversation many times before, but: using page
zoom effectively changes how many physical/screen pixels make up a CSS
pixel. So yes, full-page zoom will result in everything being bigger by
that factor, and the reported viewport width being smaller by that same
factor.

> 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.

Do you have actual examples where this happens? Because it's not really
a given that responsive sites would cause more or less
cutoffs/overflowing, since every measure (be it a measure set in pixels,
or ems, or whatever) is scaled exactly the same way.

> 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.

Do you have actual examples of a "truly fluid" site versus a "non-fluid
responsive" site?

P
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