Re: Low Vision Needs

Hi Jon,

Do you think we need a WCAG Low Vision failure to specifically address
resizing viewports?

Adopting the text from 1.4.2 in UAAG 2.0 and maybe 1.4.1 and 1.4.3 too
might help.
http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG20/#sc_142

Best Regards,
Laura

On 7/15/15, Jonathan Avila <jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com> wrote:
>> "yes, please use viewport meta to make content responsive. But don’t muck
>> around with maximum-scale, minimum-scale, and user-scalable properties, as
>> these restrict zooming."
> http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2015/dear-webdevs-from-european-blind-union/
>
> This is already in the works for mobile and I as well as others consider
> this a current WCAG failure.
>
> Jonathan
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laura Carlson [mailto:laura.lee.carlson@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2015 8:29 AM
> To: Wayne Dick
> Cc: GLWAI Guidelines WG org; Jeanne Spellman; Shawn Henry; Sharron Rush; Jim
> Allan; jbrewer@w3.org; tom
> Subject: Re: Low Vision Needs
>
> Hi Wayne and all,
>
> Thank you for your post. The larger font size is fine for me. Your draft
> seems like a very good start to me.
>
> Will we be drafting Low Vision WCAG Techniques? After noticing a tweet from
> the  European Blind Union (“The voice of 30 million #blind and partially
> sighted people in Europe”) Bruce Lawson  posted the following which may be
> the basis for a low vision  or a mobile
> technique:
>
> "yes, please use viewport meta to make content responsive. But don’t muck
> around with maximum-scale, minimum-scale, and user-scalable properties, as
> these restrict zooming."
> http://www.brucelawson.co.uk/2015/dear-webdevs-from-european-blind-union/
>
> Best Regards,
> Laura
>
> On 7/14/15, Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> I have been working on a Low Vision needs document.
>>
>> http://nosetothepage.org/LVOverview/LV_Needs.html. I hope the larger
>> than normal font does not disrupt your reading.
>>
>> Wayne.
>>
>
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Received on Wednesday, 15 July 2015 13:44:21 UTC