RE: Zoom feature

Sure, I agree zoom down is an important feature too.
Actually I'm much less concerned now that I know it was an error and not a fundamental issue. In fact maybe its not even worth a note given that we are at least a year from rec. and I would hope to see the fix in the field in the same time-frame. Perhaps we can make a decision on what to say nearer the final drafting phase.

Sean Hayes
Standards and Policy Team
Accessible Technology Group
Microsoft
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-----Original Message-----
From: Loretta Guarino Reid [mailto:lorettaguarino@google.com]
Sent: 19 January 2007 17:08
To: Sean Hayes
Cc: public-wcag-teamb@w3.org
Subject: Re: Zoom feature

This makes it sound as if this behavior should be a user agent note for the uniform scaling technique. I don't  think we want to change the SC because of a bug. The ability to scale down is also important for low vision users who are using screen magnifiers.

Loretta

On 1/18/07, Sean Hayes <Sean.Hayes@microsoft.com> wrote:
>
> I have been in touch with the IE folks over the zoom issue. It turns out that it is a known bug with positioned elements and they already have a fixed version which will be released in the next version of IE, however the release date of that is TBD.
>
> Since this only affects zoom less than 100%, and this provision is really about making text larger, I suggest we make the provision in the SC, "for enlargements up to 200%" (as I believe Gregg suggested).
>
> Sean Hayes
> Standards and Policy Team
> Accessible Technology Group
> Microsoft
> Phone:
>   mob +44 7977 455002
>   office +44 117 9719730
>
>

Received on Friday, 19 January 2007 18:00:00 UTC