Post #2809164
2026-01-27 13:51 UTC
@joshtumath@mastodon.social @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io Apologies if I'm misreading it, but the "Why do I have to enable it" section was a bit unclear to me.
Paraphrasing, it seemed to be saying: most websites violate WCAG by not accommodating text enlargement, and making text scaling the default would break those sites.
But those sites are already broken for people who need a bigger text size. Either the user enlarges the text on desktop and breaks the layout, or enlarges it on Mobil and gets text that's too small to read.
Would making text scaling the default not shine a light on how many websites are failing to meet accessibility requirements? Otherwise this meta tag is, in part, an optional accessibility support flag that sites can merrily continue to ignore.
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@joshtumath@mastodon.social 2026-01-27 13:59
@jscholes@dragonscave.space @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io Yes, because those sites are already broken, we can't change how browsers on iOS and Android scale text by default. But the goal is: we want websites to respect the user's text size settings in their OS. But the CSSWG are always rightly concerned about doing things that will break the web. We could enable by default and shine a light on these failures, but at the detriment of users who need the text scaling.