Fixed headers (was: accessibility support for low vision)

There is one potential issue that I’ve been mulling how to address, but not worked it out yet.

From testing various sites, if a site is using responsive design the 400% (320px) level it is generally fine for the zoom SC, but there are two somewhat common issues I’ve come across in the last couple of months:


  1.  A huge, fixed header area. Wayne mentioned this, it comes from developers not considering that the 320px width breakpoint can have a very short height. It is easy to fix: unstick the header. (Getting them to test with zoom is usually enough to motivate that fix.)

  2.  Removing functionality at the smaller sizes so that it isn’t available at all.

I think the second is covered (especially with the new amendment to the note yesterday), but the first is not covered in a black and white way.

I was pondering a way of saying that: if an element is fixed in the viewport and takes up more than 30% of the viewport, then it counts as a ‘loss of content’.

The zoom SC [1] is wordy already (including the notes), is this something that could be tackled in the understanding?

Cheers,

-Alastair

1] https://rawgit.com/w3c/wcag21/resize-content_ISSUE-77/guidelines/sc/21/resize-content.html

Received on Wednesday, 19 July 2017 11:21:08 UTC