Three possible mobile issues to consider

Group, I reviewed Hans Hillen's Responsive Design webinar from Global Accessibility Awareness day and it reminded me of the following issues we should track for our documents.

It is Important to know that accessibility issues can crop up in responsive sites and thus testing must be performed in different context to make sure conformance is met.  For example, when the site is reflowed text content that was on top of a solid background may be positioned on top of an image or another colored background.  In the additional a responsive page may change the order of content and thus a meaningful sequence may no longer be met.

In regards to layout changes such as portrait to landscape control groups may change.  The example Hans gives is that a group of links may change into a dropdown.  Users of screen readers who change from layout to the other may be confused when control types change.  I know we've talked about this and we were challenged to make a requirement for consistency between portrait and landscape.  Perhaps though the user must be advised of the changes - most like the Level AAA requirement o advise users when links will open in a new context.

He also mentions the issue when pop-ups don't fit into the viewport and you have to scroll to find the close button.  Perhaps this is an issue for everyone - it might be worth finding out those if this is more of a problem with browser zoom enabled.

Jonathan

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Jonathan Avila
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