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Re: Keyboard accessibility in reflow and resize

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 17, 2020 3:59AM

On 17/10/2020 03:23, Ajay Sharma wrote:
> Hello, looking for thoughts on if keyboard accessibility has to be tested when website is zoomed to 200% or 400%. In case some controls or interactions are not accessible with keyboard, will it be a compliance issue?

Keyboard access is not scoped to any specific size, so yes, if for some
reason keyboard access doesn't work when zoomed in (which to me would
suggest you have bigger problems there, as I can't imagine a situation
where pure resizing, even if things start getting cut off/overflowing,
would lead to broken keyboard) then you fail.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say "do you mean that there's actually
some responsive breakpoints and stuff adapts to smaller viewport, like
navigations turning into hamburger menus etc, and those aren't keyboard
accessible"? Because if that's the case, yes of course you also fail,
since WCAG 2.1 is scoped to cover all different breakpoints/adaptations
(see note 3 of https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#cc2)

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