- Success Criterion 1.4.4
- Conformance level AA
Tooltip or Dropdown Menu That Clips Text at 200% Zoom
1.4.4 — Resize Text
Scenario
Setting
A streaming music app's search results
What’s wrong
Tooltips/dropdown menus whose fixed dimensions clip options at 200%.
Example
html { font-size: 14px; } /* fixed px, breaks at 200% browser zoom */Why it matters
Low-vision people who enlarge text instead of using a screen reader.
How to test
Set zoom to 200% and open tooltips/dropdown menus: if their fixed pixel dimensions clip the now-larger text/options, it fails.
How to fix
At 200% text size/zoom, all content and controls must remain visible, readable, and usable — nothing clipped, overlapped, or lost. html { font-size: 100%; } body { font-size: 1rem; } /* scales with zoom */ Text sized in rem/em scales when the user zooms; hard-coded pixel sizes can get clipped or overlap.
Outcome
On a streaming music app's search results, this barrier is gone for low-vision people who enlarge text instead of using a screen reader — they get the same result as anyone else here.
Who is affected
Low-vision people who enlarge text instead of using a screen reader.
Learn more
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- Text and Controls That Get Cut Off at 200% Zoom
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