Re: Enabling Zoom on Mobile Devices

I agree James.    In practice I've only seen a handful of sites that provide controls to change the text size up to 200 percent   Thus preventing user scaling is a strong but not certain indicator of a 1.4.4 failure.

Jon

On Jan 15, 2015, at 3:49 PM, James Nurthen <james.nurthen@oracle.com<mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com>> wrote:

The requirement is that text must be able to scale to 200%  not that the user can enlarge the whole site to 200%.

If designers remove the ability for the user to pinch zoom then they must provide another way to meet this requirement to scale the text.

Regards,
James

On 1/15/2015 12:16 PM, Jonathan Avila wrote:
I consider limiting user scaling a violation under 1.4.4.   The SC is clear that use of AT is not permitted to meet the requirement.

Jonathan

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Subject: Enabling Zoom on Mobile Devices

Hi All--

Is it required under WCAG 2.0 AA that users can enlarge mobile sites to 200%? The question came up during our monthly accessibility forum, and I haven't been able to find anything about it online.

Apparently it is not uncommon for designers to set a fixed width for Responsive Web Designs, which, it seems to me, would be a violation of 1.4.4.

Your thoughts?

Mike


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