Re: Enabling Zoom on Mobile Devices

Thanks

I was sure that someone would figure out a way to defeat zoom —  but couldn’t see how.

Great example.  

So as long as you don’t figure out how to defeat zoom - you can’t fail this SC.   But it is possible if you really try  - to figure out how to defeat zoom. 

However, even the technique above would not cause zoom to fail on mobile phones - because they don’t use scroll bars.  

gregg

> On Jan 15, 2015, at 5:12 PM, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> I think I've only failed one site on this in 6 years... they had an online email web client, and they froze the window viewport so that when the user zoomed, the horizontal scroll bar wasn't present, so the user couldn't get the zoomed content that was to the right of the view port.
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> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 6:04 PM, CAE-Vanderhe <gregg@raisingthefloor.org <mailto:gregg@raisingthefloor.org>> wrote:
> the width does not determine the enlargement. 
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> with responsive design you can have a fixed width and be able to enlarge the content 300% or more. 
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> Also, please note that the normal ZOOM feature in all browsers is sufficient to meet this requirement.   It is therefore virtually impossible today to not meet this SC unless you either
> find some way to shrink your text to the same degree that someone zooms the browser  so that it doesn’t change size as you zoom’
> you create content that can ONLY be viewed by a certain browser and that browser has no zoom.
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> The problems being cited in the other posts are assuming things that are not required by WCAG. 
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> Gregg
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>> On Jan 15, 2015, at 2:08 PM, Mike Elledge <melledge@yahoo.com <mailto:melledge@yahoo.com>> wrote:
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>> Hi All--
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> Your thoughts?
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>> Mike
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