Re: Horizontal scrolling & reflow

David, in my opinion you are correct.

Jonathan

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On Sep 6, 2018, at 3:39 PM, David MacDonald <david100@sympatico.ca<mailto:david100@sympatico.ca>> wrote:


To my knowledge the Low Vision Task force was made up of western users and a primary goal of the SC is that low vision users wouldn't have to read half a line, scroll to the right to finish the line, scroll to the left to start the next line etc. We did the best we could to translate that to the eastern experience.

Under your example of western text that is wider than the viewport, but the block of text does not extend beyond the vertical boundaries of the viewport, I believe they would have still have to do the zig zag to read the end of each line. It's not a problem at the "text block" level, its at the "line of text" level.

This is my experience in accommodating low vision users.

Wayne feel free to correct me if I'm not getting this understanding of the problem right.


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On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 12:56 PM Alastair Campbell <acampbell@nomensa.com<mailto:acampbell@nomensa.com>> wrote:
Hi Wayne,

For most people using a phone, they work fine assuming you know there is horizontal scrolling. On the phone you can swipe horizontally to scroll that section.

Personally, I think it’s harder to have sections that have independent scrolling in the same direction as page scrolling (e.g. iframes or maps), they catch me out every time.

There are other considerations (e.g. screenreader usage), but if the visual design makes it clear, I haven’t found it problematic in itself.

Cheers,

-Alastair


From: Wayne Dick

Hi Everyone,
I always try to think how these scenarios would play out on a mobile phone. The presentation is usually linear. So, there would be bands of content that were either entirely vertical or entirely horizontal. Has anyone looked at these cases on a phone?

Best Wayne