RE: Desktop view should not be conforming alternative to mobile view

> How, exactly? IF a mobile-optimized version omits functionality found in the desktop view, that's not an accessibility problem - it's something that affects all users.

It is if there is no link to the desktop site -- because for me when I use low resolution or zoom to read the page on my desktop I am kicked into mobile view and I don't have the same functionality and if I can't get to it then I can't use the site and IMO SC 1.4.4 fails because not all the same content or functionality is available at 200% non-AT zoom.  Many developer assume that we're all using 1600x800 on our desktop and that isn't the case.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 9:39 AM
To: WCAG; public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org
Subject: Re: Desktop view should not be conforming alternative to mobile view

On 28/06/2016 13:41, David MacDonald wrote:

> 2. provides all of the same information and functionality in the same 
> human language ​"
> ,
>
> A mobile view has different functionality  (sort of) than a desktop 
> view

How, exactly? IF a mobile-optimized version omits functionality found in the desktop view, that's not an accessibility problem - it's something that affects all users.

>
>
>      ​"T​
> he conforming version can be reached from the non-conforming page via an
> accessibility-supported mechanism
> ​""​
>
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> Many mobile pages load automatically and don't have a mechanism to
> switch to desktop view.

Then their mobile view cannot be classed as an alternate view of the 
desktop version, as per that definition, and therefore can't use the 
"loophole" of alternate version to claim that it doesn't need to be 
accessible.

  P
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