Re: [csswg-drafts] Browser zoom unit for accessibility [css-values-and-units] (#6869)

Apologies, but I am a little unclear on what the pushback for a "zoom" keyword in CSS actually is? It is mentioned that it can be "abused" and misunderstood if there are multiple developers working on the same project. 

If the concern of abuse stems from being able to negate the zoom level, I would say the current state is worse than what might be abused, since right now there are a ton of websites scaling text with only "vw" which defeats the cmd+/cmd- zooming completely. Scaling type with the viewport is a nice tool for the user to finely increase/decrease the font size by increasing or decreasing the width of the browser window, and will become even nicer with the great new container sizing units. If the user could also use cmd+/cmd- to zoom in/out on top of this it would be a great solution. 

I would say that a clear zoom keyword we can use with calc would be a great win for accessibility. `env(browser-zoom-factor)` for instance?





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