Re: Responsive Design should be required

Hi Greg,

Between the authoring and user-agent side I think it is. Going down the list of technologies in the WCAG techniques list:

 *   Flash and Silverlight can have custom controls added for text-sizing that (I assume) could also trigger layout changes. I think FLASH33 and SL33 demonstrate that.
 *   PDF, or rather Adobe reader has the re-flow layout user control, which in a document context is equivalent to the ‘mobile view’ you get from a zoomed RWD page. (PDF2)

Not web technologies, but note that Android has always has a responsive approach to app layout, and Apple recently introduced that approach to support their growing variety of screen sizes.

The document-originating technologies (HTML, PDF) make it relatively straightforward to accomplish, the programming-originating ones (Flash, Silverlight, Apps) take more work.

Kind regards,

-Alastair


From: Gregg Vanderheiden
Subject: Re: Responsive Design should be required

that is a very good analysis Alastair.

Even if it was available at that time however — this is only a partial solution for some types of content.

To be required it would have to be possible across all technologies (not just HTML)

Does this capability exist across all web technologies — or just certain types?

gregg