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A zooming mechanism has been provided to increase the size of text
WCAG 1.0 Priority 2
WCAG Guideline 6. Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully.
The user audience may experience difficulty viewing screen information at any particular font size and benefit from the ability to adjust font size to their particular requirements.
Requirement
A zooming mechanism has been provided to increase the size of text
Recommendation
Zoom features scale everything in the document to a user-selected ratio. Use of the TrueType scalable font technology ensures that characters will remain clearly defined at almost any size.
Checking Tool
Test all magnifications of the Zoom option and verify that the layout and readability of the document itself is not effected by changing the Zoom setting.
Information Source
The original source of this information is located on the W3C web site (www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10-TECHS/#tech-fallback-page)
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