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

Note that at least one mobile UA offers text reflow when using pinch zoom - the Dolphin browser (Android).
There may be others.
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Alastair Campbell schrieb am 08.07.2016 10:36:

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> Patrick wrote:
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> > I wonder if this is more of a User Agent issue (or rather, something
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> > that needs to be flagged to UA developers). Old versions of Opera Mini
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> > and Opera Mobile had a "text wrap" and "single column" setting
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> 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.
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> It should be compatible with the current behavior – if a site doesn’t use meta-viewport this setting shouldn’t do anything.
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> > But yes, the current behavior on mobile (that when you pinch-zoom it
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> > doesn't reflow the content, but instead forces bidirectional zoom) is
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> > the default behavior that works best for the majority of users (without
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> > specific access requirements) right now, so unlikely to get changed by
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> > default.
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> 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.
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> It is also an obvious issue for people with low vision on mobile, the intersection of two task forces!
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> It needs two prongs:
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> 1.       A campaign (or something) to get the mobile UAs to update.
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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> -Alastair
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Received on Friday, 8 July 2016 08:47:10 UTC