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Re: Safari Mobile WCAG Zoom Testing Approach

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Oct 19, 2020 10:06AM

On 19/10/2020 17:02, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
[...]
> Browsers on mobile/tablet do not *do* traditional reflow when things are
> zoomed, so 1.4.10 is not applicable there for web content. Tje
> understanding doc comes shy of aknowledging this in the "Browsers on
> mobile operating systems" section of
> https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/reflow.html and blames user
> agents, but in essence for an author there's no way to detect/act on/do
> reflow as such, so not applicable from a web content guidelines point of
> view.

FWIW filed this to ask for a more explicit clarification
https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/1483


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