Re: Enabling Zoom on Mobile Devices

Katie,
Firefox on Android should respect the page meta tag according to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=707571

Note that there is a hidden preference to disable this which certain 
add-ons such as
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/always-zoom/ use to 
always allow zooming which seems to be what people are asking for.

Regards,
James



On 1/16/2015 10:09 AM, Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL wrote:
>
> Alastair:
>
> 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">
>
> 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
>

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Regards, James

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