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Re: WCAG SC 1.4.10 (Reflow) and sticky headers

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From: Steve Green
Date: Feb 24, 2020 2:57AM

Thanks for the link - it's good to know this has been discussed, even if no conclusion was reached.

Steve


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From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > On Behalf Of Patrick H. Lauke
Sent: 24 February 2020 09:53
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] WCAG SC 1.4.10 (Reflow) and sticky headers

On 24/02/2020 09:17, Steve Green wrote:
> The bit I am struggling with is that I didn't lose any content or functionality on the monitor that I was using for testing, which was 1280x1024px. I only lost content when I reduced the viewport height below 780px. I didn't need to do that, but of course other people might have monitors that are not that high.
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> If we are going to say this is a non-compliance, it seems that the SC should specify the viewport height as well as the width. If we don't, then every sticky component is going to fail if you reduce the viewport height sufficiently.

https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/987

(and yes, that SC is just very handwavy, unfortunately...as arguably it had been rushed through at the time)


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