Re: Enabling Zoom on Mobile Devices

The point is that according to the bug I referenced it is not meant to 
Zoom. If it is zooming and you haven't set the preference then this is a 
bug in the version of Firefox you are running and is liable to change.


On 1/16/2015 11:10 AM, Katie Haritos-Shea GMAIL wrote:
>
> Yes, it did work fine when I tested it in FF
>
> ** katie **
>
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> *From:*James Nurthen [mailto:james.nurthen@oracle.com]
> *Sent:* Friday, January 16, 2015 1:23 PM
> *To:* w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> *Subject:* 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
>
> -- 
> Regards, James
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