Techniques for WCAG 2.0

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G142: Using a technology that has commonly-available user agents that support zoom

Applicability

All technologies with user-agent provided zoom capability.

This technique relates to:

User Agent and Assistive Technology Support Notes

The Zoom functionality in IE 7.0 does not always scale uniformly when absolute positioning is used and the page is scaled smaller. Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 supports both Zoom and Text Size changes for fonts set with %, em or named sizes.

Opera 9 supports Zoom.

FireFox supports only text size changes, but can change the size of pt and px fonts as well as %, em and named sizes.

Description

The objective of this technique is to ensure content can be scaled uniformly by using a Web technology supported by user agents that change text size via a Zoom tool.

Content authored in technologies that are supported by user agents that can scale content uniformly (that is, zoom into content) satisfy this Success Criterion. Because this technique relies completely on user agent functionality, it is critical to test with a wide variety of user agents.

Examples

(none currently listed)

Tests

Procedure

  1. Display content in a user agent

  2. Zoom content to 200%

  3. # Check whether all content and functionality is available # Zoom content to 50%

  4. Zoom content to 50%

  5. Check whether all content and functionality is available

Expected Results