Hi Wayne, Apologies, I shouldn’t presume what other people were thinking, but the point about needing a solution still stands. I think I understand (to the extent possible without first hand experience) what you are aiming for, but the problem is that it isn’t possible for many websites (especially for those considered web applications). There is a limit to what a user-specified presentation can do, as I’m sure you’ve experienced. The advantage that RWD brings is that the author specifies how it zooms (or works on smaller screens), so they can programmatically say how it should behave. Without restricting websites to some pre-defined structure (never going to happen), I don’t think user-specified presentation can work effectively. Too many elements are dynamically shown, hidden, moved, made translucent, transformed, interacted with… a user-specified presentation has to kill that, but it also kills the authors intentions and often leads to an unusable mess. That was a problem in 2007 [1], and that aspect has only gotten more difficult. I agree that WCAG could be improved and be stricter on working for (browser) zoom, but getting user-specified styling to work is a much bigger problem that need to include user-agents, authoring tools and (IMHO) a profile system [1]. 1] https://alastairc.ac/2007/05/user-agent-improvements/ Kind regards, -Alastair
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