Patrick wrote: > I wonder if this is more of a User Agent issue (or rather, something > that needs to be flagged to UA developers). Old versions of Opera Mini > and Opera Mobile had a "text wrap" and "single column" setting Yes, that’s the sort of thing I’m advocating for. A setting where you can say “zoom beyond the initial layout and re-flow to keep within the visual viewport”. It is possible on the user agent side, thanks for the Opera link, the feedly app used to do that as well. It should be compatible with the current behavior – if a site doesn’t use meta-viewport this setting shouldn’t do anything. > But yes, the current behavior on mobile (that when you pinch-zoom it > doesn't reflow the content, but instead forces bidirectional zoom) is > the default behavior that works best for the majority of users (without > specific access requirements) right now, so unlikely to get changed by > default. Therefore a setting is needed. It’s one I would like to use as I often find the default text size too small and would like to zoom without panning back and forth to read. It is also an obvious issue for people with low vision on mobile, the intersection of two task forces! It needs two prongs: 1. A campaign (or something) to get the mobile UAs to update. 2. A temporary exception in the WCAG SC. I know we don’t do “until user agents…”, but the technology supported equivalent. I do also think it is such an obvious exception it needs a note by the SC. Cheers, -Alastair
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