Post #2809166
2026-01-27 14:07 UTC
@joshtumath@mastodon.social @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io But text scaling already doesn't work on mobile for the users who need it. So is it simply a case of not breaking those sites even more?
If yes, that does carry an implication that a site with text too small to read is considered inherently more useful or accessible than a site with a broken layout. I'm not sure how I feel about such implications being encoded directly into the web platform.
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@joshtumath@mastodon.social 2026-01-27 14:18
@jscholes@dragonscave.space @mahryekuh@hachyderm.io There is no text scaling on mobile at all. The only thing browsers provide is zoom. So the idea is that you should only add this text-scale meta tag if you have tested your website on mobile with scaled up text and made sure that the layout is not broken. If you'd like more info, we have an Explainer doc for the env(preferred-text-scale) variable that powers the meta tag. 😄 https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/blob/main/css-env-1/explainers/env-preferred-text-scale.md