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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Jun 13, 2025 6:51AM

I thought some desktop browsers were affected. Thank you, Patrick.

Thank you,
Brian Lovely

From: WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> > on behalf of Patrick H. Lauke via WebAIM-Forum < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2025 8:33 AM
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Cc: Patrick H. Lauke < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Zooming & Scaling Disabled or Not?

On 13/06/2025 13:06, Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> I've been seeing sites with user-scalable=no and/or maximum-scale=1 and yet, when I use browser zoom, the page zooms. Are these meta settings blocking zoom or not?

Starting with: these meta directives only worked on mobile browsers.
Desktop browsers have never reacted to them.


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