- From: Gregg Vanderheiden <gregg@raisingthefloor.org>
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:02:35 -0400
- To: Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com>
- Cc: John Foliot <john.foliot@deque.com>, GLWAI Guidelines WG org <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, "public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org" <public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org>
- Message-Id: <272D6F78-359F-40C6-85D2-3CE293BBC921@raisingthefloor.org>
help me understand here. I don’t see anything much about locking orientation that is an access problem. if you lock it vertical — then I can’t use the horizontal trick to make the screen larger — (which I always use) — but instead have to turn to zoom. But for many, turning the screen sideways zooms it a bit but not enough so they have to zoom anyway. So it isnt a show stopper like some things. It just makes us introduce horizontal scrolling for some more people. Is there a barrier I am missing? or is this more like “wcag says 200% and we would like to require the threshold be higher” Is there some other barrier that arises when I can’t change orientation? One I can think of is a person With a physical disability who has his tablet mounted in one direction, and if he goes to a page that forces him in other orientation then he can’t turn it. But it seems to me that this is already true for many apps and I haven’t seen any websites that only work in landscape. So if he needs to have a current portrait for the apps and other places, it seems that you leave it in portrait as it would work on all webpages. But I might be missing something here. Comments? gregg > On Jun 28, 2016, at 5:42 AM, Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com> wrote: > > John Foliot wrote: > > I'm still not 100% sure, but it really feels like a 4.x.x issue so far, as it's impacting the user agent as > > much as the content presented inside/by the user agent. But I really do want to hear other's thoughts here… > > In my mind not locking the orientation associates with resizing-text, although from the guideline text I would go with “Adaptable” (1.3) rather than “Distinguishable” (1.4). > > I suppose it could go under 4, but it jars a little because it is “Compatible” (in the developer’s mind at least). Orientation is a mode of a user-agent, not a compatibility issue per-se. > > If it were considered a user-agent issue, it is something the user-agent could also solve by allowing the user to over-ride the HTML/App. > > HTH, > > -Alastair >
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