Zoom is limited on mobile
Automated check meta-viewport-large, run with axe-core
- WCAG
- Best practice: a recommendation, not a WCAG success criterion
- Severity
- Moderate: a degraded experience
- Typical effort
- Quick win, under 1 hour
- Category
- Visual design
Who this affects
People with low vision using a phone.
Why it matters
A maximum-scale below 5 stops users from enlarging text as far as they need.
How to fix it
Remove maximum-scale from the viewport meta tag, or set it to at least 5.
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