RE: Jonathan's concern: Zoom in responsive drops content

> [Jason wrote] Leaving aside for the moment the question of whether it can be done without amending the existing success criterion, how would you address this point? Would you require that text can be resized up to 200% without assistive technology and irrespective of display resolution?

If/when we have a better way of detecting mobile devices other than viewport width then that could be used -- but until then it seems like we'd have to pick some resolution and pixel scale combination.   I don't think allowing any resolution makes sense but it has to be reasonable minimum given what's out there today.

Jonathan



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From: White, Jason J [mailto:jjwhite@ets.org] 
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2016 2:47 PM
To: Jonathan Avila; public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org; WCAG
Subject: RE: Jonathan's concern: Zoom in responsive drops content



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jonathan Avila [mailto:jon.avila@ssbbartgroup.com]

> This is also dependent on your screen resolution as well.
>
> Say I go to a site at 102x768 on my desktop that as full 
> functionality.  I zoom in to 200% and I only get some functionality 
> because the responsive site as assumed I'm on a mobile and has removed some functionality.  I say this fails.
>
> Joe developer that makes the website goes to the same website on his 
> computer with 1600x800 resolution and zooms in to 200% and he stays in 
> the desktop site because the breakpoint is never triggered.  He says it passes.
[Jason] Leaving aside for the moment the question of whether it can be done without amending the existing success criterion, how would you address this point? Would you require that text can be resized up to 200% without assistive technology and irrespective of display resolution?
I agree with Gregg that the question of excluding content which cannot feasibly be reorganized to avoid horizontal scrolling of the viewport is a complex one. When is it truly impracticable to change the user interface to make it fit within the viewport without changing the nature of the tasks that the user can perform? Where's the borderline?


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