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Re: Does 1.4.10 essentially replace 1.4.4?

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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Sep 4, 2021 8:45AM

On 04/09/2021 15:26, glen walker wrote:
> 1.4.4 requires zooming to 200% "without loss of content or functionality".
> 1.4.10 requires zooming to 400% "without loss of information or
> functionality"

Quickfire answer: if you zoom to 200% (at whatever screen size - and the
fact that this is not clearly defined anywhere is a separate problem)
and it causes horizontal and vertical scrollbars, that's OK for 1.4.4 as
long as content is still reachable/not cut off/overlapped.

But if you zoom to exactly 320 CSS px width / 256 CSS px height, and you
get either content that's cut off etc, OR you get horizontal and
vertical scrollbars (that mean you have to scroll back and forth to read
a chunk of content, in both directions), then that FAILS 1.4.10

see 1.4.10 as a stricter version of 1.4.4 (due to the scrollbars being a
no-no in 1.4.10)


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