Laura, et al.
I’m concerned with the wording from the GitHub link for the latest proposal,
It starts out with the statement by allanj-uaaag
Current: Text can be resized without assistive technology up to 200 percent in a way that does not require the user to scroll horizontally to read a line of text on a full-screen window.
This is an inaccurate statement.
The current 1.4.4 allows for scrolling if necessary in the Examples for Success:
“A user uses a zoom function in his user agent to change the scale of the content. All the content scales uniformly, and the user agent provides scroll bars, if necessary.”
I also think it is physically impossible to increase to 1100% without horizontal scrolling.
Is their an actual font size that the 1100% value is trying to achieve?
1100% creates a totally different end resultant font size on a 10” tablet as it does on a 15” laptop or a 24” monitor. What the user gets with 1100% on a larger monitor would not be nearly what they get on a smaller monitor/screen size.
Should we state that it needs to be 1100% for 15” monitors but something like 1800” for 10” screens and 2200% for 6” smart phones.
Would we also need to make sure that touch target sizes for buttons and icons need to be scalable to some value at a similar percentage as well for low vision and users with dexterity and motor skill issues?
Alan Smith, CSTE, CQA
Sent from Mail for Windows 10
From: Alastair Campbell
Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2016 6:11 AM
To: Laura Carlson; Jonathan Avila
Cc: public-mobile-a11y-tf@w3.org; WCAG; Low Vision Task Force
Subject: Re: Jonathan's concern: Zoom in responsive drops content
Laura wrote:
The latest LVTF proposal for an SC is 1100% based on Gordon Leege's studies.
https://github.com/w3c/low-vision-SC/issues/5
Thanks for the heads up, I don’t think that’s realistic so I’ve commented there.
-Alastair