Checkpoint 5.7 - Mobile-PDA

Site designers for mobile device need to efficiently use the small screen size. One way to ensure this is to allow text wrapping to be controlled by the flow layout capabilities of the mobile device and not to constrain text to any specifid fixed width.

Requirement

Text wrapping is allowed

Recommendation

Do not set fixed widths on containers that the text is in.

Checking Tool

View the page on a number of different mobile devices and verify that all text wraps between the screen margins regardless of the width of the device.