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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Jun 13, 2025 6:06AM
Subject: Zooming & Scaling Disabled or Not?
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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?
Thank you,
Brian Lovely
From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 13, 2025 6:33AM
Subject: Re: Zooming & Scaling Disabled or Not?
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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.
As sites started abusing these, mobile browsers started offering users
settings to ignore them. But nowadays, most (all?) mobile browsers
simply ignore them by default. So, they're not necessarily a problem
anymore these days, *but* if your audience could include people with
older mobile OS/browser versions, then they will prevent them from
resizing content and thus failing 1.4.4 Resize Text (unless they offer
separate ways to resize content).
P
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From: Brian Lovely
Date: Jun 13, 2025 6:51AM
Subject: Re: Zooming & Scaling Disabled or Not?
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I thought some desktop browsers were affected. Thank you, Patrick.
Thank you,
Brian Lovely
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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.
P
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Patrick H. Lauke
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* https://github.com/patrickhlauke
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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jun 13, 2025 8:08AM
Subject: Re: Zooming & Scaling Disabled or Not?
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On 13/06/2025 13:51, Brian Lovely via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> I thought some desktop browsers were affected. Thank you, Patrick.
Not to my knowledge, no (similarly to how none of them respond to other
viewport meta directives about initial scale, width, and so on).
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Patrick H. Lauke
* https://www.splintered.co.uk/
* https://github.com/patrickhlauke
* https://flickr.com/photos/redux/
* https://mastodon.social/@patrick_h_lauke