Sites that make the video port smaller when you zoom in... I hope you get whats coming to you.
Please stop disabling zoom
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Re: Please stop disabling zoom
#32Yes it is silly. The article actually ends with some useful tips: As a user, you can force allow zooming: In Firefox find the settings, select “Accessibility” and activate “Zoom on all website” In Chrome find the settings, select “Accessibility” and check “Force enable zoom”
Unfortunately this also disables it on sites where it makes sense. For example I have a simple tool to pick a random person or split people into groups https://playerone.kevincox.ca/
Without zoom disabled 5 people putting their fingers on a screen looks a lot like a pinch gesture. Disabling the default event handlers only works some of the time.
This is a common problem with the web, we can't have nice things because people use them poorly.
Re: Please stop disabling zoom
#33It’s not just accessibility. I’ve last track of the number of times I’ve seen a mobile website with a table that extends past the right side of the viewport and zoom disabled. You can’t scroll, and you can’t zoom, so you can’t read the table.
Unfortunately people see accessibility as a burden that a small minority puts on the rest of us, but really it is something that benefits everyone. For instance, normally sighted people or even people with "normal" nearsightedness, farsightedness, or presbyopia benefit from adequate contrast. Text "size" is another thing because people should be able to control it, particularly given the wide range of different devic…
> ... a small minority ... presbyopia ...
I think what you just indirectly pointed out is that software is largely written by young, ignorant people who don't appreciate that everyone will get to experience presbyopia, and it happens sooner than you think. Maybe we should require product owners to be at least 40 years old ;-).
Re: Please stop disabling zoom
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unfortunately people see accessibility as a burden that a small minority puts on the rest of us, but really it is something that benefits everyone. For instance, normally sighted people or even people with "normal" nearsightedness, farsightedness, or presbyopia benefit from adequate contrast. Text "size" is another thing because people should be able to control it, particularly given the wide range of different devic…
> Unfortunately people see accessibility as a burden that a small minority puts on the rest of us, but really it is something that benefits everyone Depends on the individual case — I’ve seen entire projects get scrapped because it wouldn’t be feasible to make an “accessible” version. Some things just aren’t work for everyone and that’s okay.
A flip side is that any bureaucratic mandate is a "free pass" to reject anything that's hard to find another justification for rejecting... In terms of institutional requirements it is a gift as much as a burden.
Re: Please stop disabling zoom
#35Yes! I have good eyesight but still frequently zoom for various reasons. The main one is small images and diagrams on responsive websites. Another is clicking small clustered links. In the same vein, if you use images on your responsive website, consider linking to the full size version.
What's really weird is how some sites go out of their way to do this. IG for example, even on desktop, presents a fixed size image and prevents right-click operations on the image. Meanwhile, the full resolution image is actually available if you know how your browser works. Another example is video controls like scrub and speed being unavailable.
I would buy this if they downscaled everything before storing it; that would actually make sense. But it seems like they just want to "curate" your "experience"?
Re: Please stop disabling zoom
#36Yes it is silly. The article actually ends with some useful tips: As a user, you can force allow zooming: In Firefox find the settings, select “Accessibility” and activate “Zoom on all website” In Chrome find the settings, select “Accessibility” and check “Force enable zoom”
I kind of wish the author had lead with this instead of burying it at the bottom. For whatever reach the article gets, this is the part that's going to offer value to readers (it seems unlikely this article will sway a significant number of web developers to change their habits).
Re: Please stop disabling zoom
#37I once had a meeting were 3 coworkers and the CEO were all advocating for disabling zoom because, "other sites do it". I argued that it doesn't hurt anything to leave it enabled and refused to disable it. 3 months later Apple removed disabling zoom from Safari and I felt validated.
Re: Please stop disabling zoom
#38FWIW, I can zoom on all of the listed example sites using the pinch action on an iPad. (My eyesight is poor, and this is something I do often to read small text.) Is this something that’s dependent on the browser?
Re: Please stop disabling zoom
#39My mother-in-law has severe eye problems and MS type symptoms. 16 years ago, I showed her how ctrl shift +/- could make her fonts huge. This one tip that is not obvious to most folks improved and continue to improve her quality of life _drastically_.
Re: Please stop disabling zoom
#40My first reaction was "Who in their right mind would ask users to stop disabling zoo..oh wait, you meant THAT zoom" :))
Had a chuckle.