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Re: Scalable or Responsive and why

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From: Aditya
Date: Oct 8, 2020 12:44PM

Responsive rearranges content blocks. Example, a list of links that are horizontally laid out would go under a hamburger menu when page is zoomed and users would have to navigate again to re orient and access content.
I guess it's picking what's best for your users.


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> On Oct 8, 2020, at 1:12 PM, Jonathan Avila < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> Responsive is much better for users with low vision so they do not have to scroll horizontally to read a line of text. It would also likely be needed to meet WCAG 2.1 SC 1.4.10 which indicates text should fit into a width of 320CSS pixels without scrolling in the direction of the text.
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> Jonathan
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