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Re: 200% website scaling

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Nov 30, 2019 7:44AM

On 29/11/2019 17:40, glen walker wrote:
> One of the great (and aggravating) things about accessibility is that some
> issues are subjective.
>
>> Not really. It's a display setting, not an accessibility setting.
>
> As mentioned in my reply. "Make everything bigger" (scaling) is the "Ease
> of Access" settings. Those are accessibility settings.

It's also set in

System > Display > Scale and Layout

Not exclusively an "accessibility" related setting, but a display setting.

>> Let's not confuse the matter by talking about reflow, which has nothing
> to do with 1.4.4
>
> Sure it does. You even said so yourself when you said "At any possible
> viewport size, a user should be able to resize text up to 200% without
> adverse effects (things being cut off, overlapping...".
>
> If the page does not reflow properly, that can cause "things being cut off"
> or "overlapping". I didn't say that 1.4.4 was *only* about reflow, but if
> you don't reflow properly, you can cause 1.4.4 issues.

thing being cut off means they're cut off and you can't get to them.
think overflow:hidden in CSS.

The appearance of scrollbars, rather than reflow, is perfectly fine in
light of 1.4.4. See for instance the understanding doc
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/resize-text.html under
"Examples":

"A user uses a zoom function in his user agent to change the scale of
the content. All the content scales uniformly, and the user agent
provides scroll bars, if necessary."

This is exactly why there was a need for an additional 1.4.10 SC for reflow.

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