Re: Responsive Design should be required

I don't think there is a PDF player currently that allows responsive.
Apparently, there is one in the making from a vendor, that I heard about
through the grape vine, that is supposed to be out in December

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On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 7:04 PM, Gregg Vanderheiden <
gregg@raisingthefloor.org> wrote:

> that is a very good analysis Alastair.
>
> Even if it was available at that time however — this is only a partial
> solution for some types of content.
>
> To be required it would have to be possible across all technologies (not
> just HTML)
>
> Does this capability exist across all web technologies — or just certain
> types?
>
> *gregg*
>
> ----------------------------------
> Gregg Vanderheiden
> gregg@raisingthefloor.org
>
>
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2015, at 6:56 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Wayne,
>
> I generally agree, I think that responsive web design (RWD) is the best
> way to support low vision users and others across a variety of devices [1].
>
> I would nit-pick a little on this point:
> "At the time WCAG 2.0 was approved most drafters of the guidelines could
> not perceive the problem.”
>
> To get the historical context, I don’t think it was about perceiving the
> problem, it was the lack of viable solution.
>
> A key technology required by RWD is CSS media queries, and in the browsers
> most people used at the time, they were not supported. Without media
> queries the contortions you had to make for layouts to work at 200%
> text-size or zoom were not feasible beyond very simple sites. I know this
> because we spent a lot of time on ‘liquid layouts’ from 2001-2009!
>
> Now there is a mechanism to change layout at different viewport sizes (and
> therefore zoom levels), I would like to see WCAG2 1.4.4 updated so that
> horizontal scrolling at 200% is a fail at level-AA.
>
> That might be possibly be through the understanding / techniques
> documents, as the normative text says "text can be resized without
> assistive technology up to 200 percent without loss of content or
> functionality”. So we would need to  bring in horizontal scrolling within
> certain parameters as “loss of content” in the non-normative documents.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> -Alastair
>
> 1] https://alastairc.ac/2013/08/browser-zoom-great-for-accessibility/
>
>
>