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Re: zooming font size on phone displays

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Jan 17, 2019 8:40AM

> I also use 3-finger double tap on the iphone to zoom the entire display.

As a point of clarification -- three finger zoom on iOS (and it's equivalent on Android) is an assistive technology -- SC 1.4.4 requires resize of text without use of assistive technology. Browser zoom is generally what is used to meet the success criteria but there could be other methods such as supporting the large text settings at the OS level by referring to Apple system fonts or by using an on page controls. As a note -- in some browser combos meta tag viewport restrictions can block the user from pinch zooming -- so this is always a good automatic or manual test to check.

Jonathan

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