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From: Mallory
Date: May 22, 2018 5:40AM

Re this:
"User zoom: if user zoom is set to no then user cannot zoom the content and therefore, always set user zoom to yes to enable the zoom feature"
If the author leaves out zoom entirely, it should default to allowing zoom as well. Authors don't have to worry about remembering to set it to "yes" to allow zooming.

One thing I don't see in many places talking about responsive web design is not just using width media queries, but height ones as well. This mostly because on my laptop I am zoomed in enough to usually get the "mobile" view of a page. But when I don't, I often get the "sticky" things (sticky headers and footers) meant for the desktop view. But my screen when zoomed isn't large enough. I wish a height media query did a quick check on whether my viewport *height* (in em) is tall enough. When it isn't, un-stick the stickies. Otherwise I end up with pages looking unusable.
http://www.stommepoes.nl/Access/NCDT/img/zoomed_screenshot.png

cheers,
Mallory

On Tue, May 22, 2018, at 12:57 PM, suman damera wrote:
> Hello all,
> I written blog post on the responsive web design(RWD) and it's
> accessibility and sharing the blog posts links here by thinking it would
> help some one
> part1:
> http://www.sumandamera.com/responsive-web-designrwd-and-its-accessibility-part1/
> part2:
> http://www.sumandamera.com/responsive-web-designrwd-and-its-accessibility-part2/
>
> Thank you.
> > > >