RE: Enabling Zoom on Mobile Devices

Alastair:

 

AC: Could you try this page:

 <https://alastairc.ac/testing/user-scaling.html> https://alastairc.ac/testing/user-scaling.html 

 

I’ve set that up with:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=0, maximum-scale=1">

 

 

Katie: On my Android phone, Samsung Note 2,  using the a) default browser, b) Chrome and c) Firefox)

*         Firefox: Zooms nicely

*         Chrome: Does not scale, but when changed to landscape view (turning phone), it rearranges nicely with slightly larger fonts

*         Default Device Browser: Does many weird things. Potrait View: is missing most of the content (just header with bland grey screen). Landscape View: Show the content but it is all spread out horizontally. You have to swipe right or left to see the content. Neither view scales!

 

 

* katie *

 

Katie Haritos-Shea 
Senior Accessibility SME (WCAG/Section 508/ADA/AODA)

 

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From: Alastair Campbell [mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com] 
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 11:28 AM
To: Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL; 'Jonathan Avila'; 'Gregg Vanderheiden'
Cc: 'Mike Elledge'; 'GLWAI Guidelines WG org'
Subject: RE: Enabling Zoom on Mobile Devices

 

Katie said: “Actually on my Android phone, Samsung Note 2,  without setting any special feature all three browser I use (the default browser, Chrome and Firefox) zooms in and out just fine.”

 

AC: Could you try this page:

https://alastairc.ac/testing/user-scaling.html 

 

I’ve set that up with:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, user-scalable=0, maximum-scale=1">

 

And no browser detection.

 

On iOS and Chrome/Android (4.3) you cannot zoom in by default. 

 

Chrome has accessibility settings which do allow you to over-ride the lack of scaling, and also increase the text size. iOS doesn’t.

 

-Alastair