- From: Roman Komarov via GitHub <noreply@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2025 00:31:42 +0000
- To: public-css-archive@w3.org
> I don't understand how introducing a text scale limit of 200% meets 1.4.4. You need to meet 200%, but that doesn't mean you stop at 200%. Let users zoom as much as the browser allows. Isn't it exactly the same as the example from [the second note on the “understanding” SC 1.4.4 page](https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/resize-text.html#:~:text=Note,-As)? > As with most other Success Criteria, this criterion applies to each variation of the page that is automatically presented for various screen sizes (e.g. media query variations in a responsive site). In an implementation where text does not consistently increase its size as people zoom in (such as when it is transformed based on a media query to adapt to small-screen usage), it must still be possible to get to 200% enlargement in order to satisfy the criterion. > > For example, if at the default browser setting of 100% zoom, text is set at 20px when the window is 1280 CSS pixels wide, at 200% zoom it will visually appear at twice the size. After zooming by 400% the page reflows to fit within the 320 CSS pixel viewport, the author may decide to set the page's text size to 10px. The text is now half the original size in CSS pixels, but as it has been enlarged to 400%, it is still displayed at twice the size compared to the default browser setting at 100% zoom. It is not required to achieve 200% text enlargement while remaining inside a specific breakpoint (as zooming may result in the variation for a new breakpoint becoming active), but it should still be possible to get 200% text enlargement in some way compared to the default 100% zoom. The proposed limit is only for the text-grow algorithm in relation to the original size. When page zoom happens, it is fully analogous in behavior when the font-size is reduced for a narrower screen, and the “Understanding SC 1.4.4” says that this is enough to satisfy SC 1.4.4. -- GitHub Notification of comment by kizu Please view or discuss this issue at https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/12886#issuecomment-3629644622 using your GitHub account -- Sent via github-notify-ml as configured in https://github.com/w3c/github-notify-ml-config
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