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Re: Do you test 1.4.4 Resize Text for native apps?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Apr 18, 2020 6:08AM

On 18/04/2020 11:36, Steve Green wrote:
> Of course I meant 1.4.10, not 1.4.4.

As a side note, for web content on mobile devices (rather than native
content), see the section on "Browsers on mobile operating systems"
https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/reflow.html which
aknowledges that reflow doesn't generally happen on zooming/magnifying
there.

1.4.10 has been specified with desktop web content in mind. As defined,
it's ill-suited to mobile, and even more so to mobile native where
there's even less of a concept of users zooming without two-dimensional
scrolling.

(Hoping that this will be clarified a bit once WCAG2ICT is updated to
cover the new 2.1 SCs, but not holding my breath)

P
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