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Re: Does 1.4.10 essentially replace 1.4.4?

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From: Steve Green
Date: Sep 5, 2021 2:38PM

I have seen plenty of websites where the media queries are messed up such that 1.4.10 passes, but 1.4.4 doesn't. The desktop and mobile layouts (corresponding to 100% and 400% zoom) have generally been done properly, but the intermediate breakpoints for tablets are often buggy.

It's also worth noting that zooming is only one of the ways that a website can pass 1.4.4. It is possible (albeit unlikely) that a website relies on a text resizing widget to meet 1.4.4 because zooming doesn't work properly at 200% for some reason.

These sort of issues are less likely to happen with new websites, but are perhaps more likely with older fixed-width websites that have had some media queries added to make them responsive. We recently worked on a 15 year-old web application created in XHTML 1.0 where the client was trying to do this.

Steve Green
Managing Director
Test Partners Ltd