Ah very good that would definitely be a barrier to someone whose computer is locked / mounted in one position or another Ok — so you are thinking of an SC that requires pages to be viewable without requiring the user to rotate their screens in on format or another? Sounds like a good - and new - and testable one. anyone see a hole in this? gregg > On Jun 28, 2016, at 4:33 PM, Patrick H. Lauke <redux@splintered.co.uk> wrote: > > > Many sites currently do this sort of thing in a very primitive way (they check the browser window/viewport width/height and, if it's not in the "correct" ratio, they simply put a big roadblock in front of the content until the user changes the ratio/turns the device. As noted earlier in this thread, there are now more robust standards/techniques coming (screen orientation API, CSS directives that lock a view into a particular orientation, directives in progressive web app JSON manifests that explicitly set a locked orientation). And again, WCAG currently doesn't have the tools to flag this as a problem. > > P
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