RE: Screen Magnification

Phill: "So the test could be something like: When in phone viewport, the
page and text block reflows by the browser and can support zoom to 4X with
loss of functionality."

 

Interesting idea. So is this suggestion for a test of a new UAAG
reequirement or a new WCAG technique?

 

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From: Phill Jenkins [mailto:pjenkins@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 5:59 PM
To: WAI Interest Group
Subject: Re: Screen Magnification

 

Laura repeated Jon: 
>  I'm not sure that WCAG does all it can do, 
> since it currently allows fixed sized
> containers and text and fixed position content. 

Jon said: 
> I've been pleased that desktop browsers are using the zoom to change the
viewport size 
> and thus trigger responsive pages to respond on zoom.

I mentioned this a few posts or weeks ago.  I think we need to recommend
some advisory techniques here that take advantage of the current responsive
design paradigms.  We have a combination of several things occuring
together.  Designers designing pages that respond well to the desktop
viewport, the tablet viewport, and the phone viewport, commonly called
"breakpoints" in the design world.  And, I beieve all these are done with
fixed size containers, but not always.  My point is that it is not the case
that fixed point necessarily supports or prevents the responsive reflow.  It
is that the browser changes (or forces) the fixed width so that the pages
design responds and reflows.  As I mentioned earlier, if a user were to tell
the browser to behave as if it were a phone, then the content 'reflows" to a
singluar  column, grids (data tables) become cards, etc. such that the user
expereince works well for a narrow viewport.  If the browser were to allow
the user to also (in addition to)  increase the fonts and zoom at the same
time on the desktop, but tricking the page to think it was still in phone
mode, then a very large single column view would work with just the browser.
That is the requirement I would like to add to UAAG.  And I believe that is
the behavior many end users with low vision want to expereince.   

I think it is simply leting the user specify 3 block text widths: desktop,
tablet, and phone; but be able to use any one of them while still on a
desktop or tablet.  If the user sets the font too large then there will be
horizontal scrolling, but there has to be a narrow limit at some point, and
I'm suggsting the limit be the phone potrait viewport initially.   

So the test could be something like: When in phone viewport, the page and
text block reflows by the browser and can suport zoom to 4X with loss of
functionality. 
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Regards,
Phill Jenkins, 
IBM Accessibility