This is actually a really good question as it gets into an interesting
tension between responsiveness and accessibility. Zooming is often a
useful means of addressing visual access issues, and one cannot presume
that a user will have external or in-browser apps for magnification.
There is some literature on defining media queries using em/rem units
instead of pixels, which would address some of the issues.
http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-ems-have-it-proportional-media-queries-ftw/
https://css-tricks.com/zooming-squishes/
I can't say for certain about this, however, as I haven't tested it yet.
I have now added zooming vs responsiveness to my testing criteria.
Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
Information Technology Services
University of Washington Libraries
http://staff.washington.edu/deibel
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On 2/5/2016 10:40 AM, Kyle Breneman wrote:
Happy Friday, everybody!
Our library recently got a shiny new, responsive-esque website.
<http://langsdale.ubalt.edu> The reference librarians frequently zoom in
on our homepage during class instruction, and have noticed that after they
zoom in a bit, our homepage switches from desktop to the mobile layout.
Is there any easy way around this? In other words, is it possible to fix
the site so that, if a user is on a desktop/laptop, zooming in on the
homepage will *not* flip the user over to the mobile layout?
Thanks for your help!
Kyle
