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Re: - Reg: Screen reader testing when screen Resized or Reflow settings applied on the page.

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From: Raghavendra Babu Siddi
Date: Jan 24, 2025 12:58AM

Hi Team,

We saw that some people were testing the application by changing the system resolution to 1280 X 1024 and scaling 100%. And a few people are testing the browser console with Console changes: Selecting Responsive design with resolutions 320 X 256 and validating the page.

Can someone give me an idea about which approach is the best one to perform to test 1.4.10 Reflow success criteria.

Thanks,
Raghavendra.
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] [EXTERNAL] - Reg: Screen reader testing when screen Resized or Reflow settings applied on the page.

Raghavendra,

I can imagine a user who uses something like ZoomText Magnifier/Reader or Fusion with the screen magnified and making use of text to speech simultaneously as a likely user experience.

Are you saying that you're just testing these separately to first, see if upon being zoomed the reflow is working properly. And they testing the screen reader experience but not both at the same time? Or did you encounter an issue while zoomed in that the screen reading function failed?

I test each separately myself I must admit and have assume that the zoomed and properly reflowing content would also work correctly with a screen reader.

Doug Hayman
IT Accessibility Coordinator
Information Technology
Olympic College
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