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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 10, 2018 3:05AM

On 10/01/2018 09:17, Mallory wrote:
>> 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.
>
> So Twitter goes responsive (text in menus turn into icons, the left-side thingie goes away) but if I want to log out, I need to zoom waaaaaay the hell out because they forgot that sticky headers with dropdown menus are poop. If my screen was as large as those Silicon-valley designers it probably would still fit but I'm on a Lenovo stinkpad, like 12" or something.
>
> They check widths in their responsiveness but I guess they forgot about heights.

That would also happen if they weren't using responsive web design. It's
just bad design, period.

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