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RE: Discussion: Change to SC 2.6.2 Orientation

From: White, Jason J <jjwhite@ets.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:25:24 +0000
To: "Patrick H. Lauke" <redux@splintered.co.uk>, "w3c-wai-gl@w3.org" <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick H. Lauke [mailto:redux@splintered.co.uk]
> Maybe I'm misunderstanding, or this is splitting terminology, but If there's a
> mechanism to change it, then it's not locked, surely?
[Jason] According to the terminology used in the screen orientation API, even if there's a mechanism to change it, the orientation is locked. The example is that given in the GitHub issue: a button that calls the lock() method to lock the orientation when the user presses it.
https://www.w3.org/TR/screen-orientation/



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