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Re: zooming font size on phone displays

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From: glen walker
Date: Jan 17, 2019 11:30AM

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 8:41 AM Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
wrote:

> > 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.
>

Yes, absolutely. But I didn't think this conversation was about WCAG
criteria. I thought the OP was just asking about how to zoom, whether via
AT or built-in features.