Re:Tota11y
by mkozlows on Monday June 29, 2015 @10:04AM
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For what it's worth, using the viewport meta element to disable zoom is a WCAG AA accessibility violation: http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-accessibility-mapping/#zoom-magn...
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Re:Tota11y
by yellowapple on Monday June 29, 2015 @12:42PM
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That seems to focus on font size adjustments, which would be unaffected by a meta viewport, no?
"Magnify browser's viewport (typically "pinch-zoom")"
That is exactly what is disabled when authors disable zoom via the meta property.
Re:Tota11y
by yellowapple on Monday June 29, 2015 @09:08PM
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Right, but it's not what the relevant accessibility standard focuses on. It's the difference between zooming the whole page and making just the text bigger (i.e. through a browser's minimum font size setting), and it's only the former that's affected by meta viewport tags, no?
Re:Tota11y
by cycomachead on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @08:49PM
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As some who also has terrible vision -- dedicated text sizing is awesome, but being able to just pinch-zoom makes ALL the difference for me. So many aspects of a web page are hard to use other than just text as well. (Those "X" close icons can get pretty damn hard to decipher at times.)
No solution is perfect, but allowing zooming is simple and a huge win for me. (Even if the site still has a sticky header that wont get out of the way...)