See Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria for important information about the usage of these informative techniques and how they relate to the normative WCAG 2.0 success criteria. The Applicability section explains the scope of the technique, and the presence of techniques for a specific technology does not imply that the technology can be used in all situations to create content that meets WCAG 2.0.
All technologies with user-agent provided zoom capability.
This technique relates to:
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.
This technique requires that the zoom function preserve all spatial relationships on the page and that all functionality continues to be available.
Internet Explorer 7 and Opera 9 provide a zoom function that scales HTML/CSS page content uniformly.
To allow users to resize text, Adobe Reader provides a magnification tool that scales PDF pages uniformly.
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Display content in a user agent
Zoom content to 200%
Check whether all content and functionality is available
Check #3 is true.
If this is a sufficient technique for a success criterion, failing this test procedure does not necessarily mean that the success criterion has not been satisfied in some other way, only that this technique has not been successfully implemented and can not be used to claim conformance.