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From: Mallory
Date: Jun 26, 2020 10:45AM

Not screen reader related but another issue with flex: test zooming in or text-enlarge when using flex.

Very often I see people making flex rows and not checking what happens when everything's bigger-- the default for those is not wrapping. I'm tired of needing to scroll back and forth just because I needed to make text a bit bigger.

Depending on the design, text-enlarge might be better off using wholly different styles for the "mobile"/less viewport room style with a CSS media query.

cheers,
_mallory

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020, at 3:45 PM, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> On 24/06/2020 14:30, Sandy Feldman wrote:
> > Léonie, this is really useful! Thanks very much.
> >
> > Here's my takeaway - flex is ok for everything except for reordering
> > content, which is going to mess with the tab order. Browser can fix
> > that, but they haven't.
>
> And there's an argument that browsers shouldn't fix this
> indiscriminately, as there are certainly cases where an author may have
> a particular reading/focus order in mind, while also wanting to define a
> different visual presentation. In those cases, browsers just naively
> applying heuristics to "fix" reading/focus order would go against these
> authors' efforts (with no current way for them to explicitly opt out of
> this / signal to the browser "no, I know what I'm doing")
>
> P
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