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If the staff sees this - please stop preventing zoom. Not only is that bad for accessibility, it makes the article less useful for everyone - there's a screensh
by viraptor 2y ago
If the staff sees this - please stop preventing zoom. Not only is that bad for accessibility, it makes the article less useful for everyone - there's a screenshot included showing off the feature, but it's too small to read on the phone and I can't zoom in.
- scary-size 2y agoI can zoom just fine on mobile Safari.
- PKop 2y agoSo what? His complaint is easily verifiable, and valid: <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=0">
- aitchnyu 2y agoI jumped on this bandwagon long back for preventing horizontal scrollbars and other issues. Is there an updated advice for allowing zoom and being responsive?
- ericrallen 2y ago“Allowing zoom” and “being responsive” are not two states at odds with one another. Preventing zooming is a serious accessibility issue and it makes the content worse for every user. If you’re properly setting responsive widths, a large enough base font size, large enough input text size, and using border-box for box-sizing, things should just work except for cases where you’re absolutely positioning things or telling them not to word wrap and they are wider than the viewport.
- lobsterthief 2y agoThere really is no bandwagon to jump onto here—most sites don’t prevent zooming in. Many that do were just misconfigured from the start, and because some popular mobile browsers ignore `maximum-scale=1.0`, the issue isn’t normally identified. Quick tip: Make sure all of your inputs are at least 16px font size. This will prevent most mobile browsers from “automatically” zooming in when an input is focused ;) Which is a common reason people employ the maximum-scale property.
- catlikesshrimp 2y agoI can zoom in Android 14 Firefox 136.0.1 (Build #2016078447), hg-e7956a4db6c5+ GV: 136.0.1-20250310180126 AS: 136.0 ublock origin enable zoom in all websites Edit: I know this is not what you are asking for, but try opening the image in a new tab. Can you zoom in there? https://kagifeedback.org/assets/files/2025-04-17/1744906741-483590-image.png https://kagifeedback.org/assets/files/2025-04-17/1744906741-...
- viraptor 2y agoYeah, I know the workarounds. This is more of a "complain publicly to maybe fix this specific case, but mostly raise awareness for people who will build the next thing".
- dean2432 2y agoThis has been bugging me as well.
- Hasnep 2y agoFirefox on Android has an accessibility setting called "Zoom on all web sites" that gets around this. Firefox's reader mode would help with this as well. It's a shame we need these workarounds instead of all websites being accessible by default :/
- cma 2y agoThe original android browser had something much better, zoom until the size was right, double tap to reflow to fit
- onli 2y agoThe new one has an extension that reflows on zoom. https://github.com/emvaized/text-reflow-on-zoom-mobile https://github.com/emvaized/text-reflow-on-zoom-mobile, it is quite useful.
- cma 2y agoNice, I wouldn't want it to be automatic after pinch but that looks promising and I'm sure could be modded, maybe pinch zoom and then if you keep holding the two fingers without moving much for X amount of time it reflows
- onli 2y agoYeah, it is sometime annoying when text reflows if you only want to look closer at an image. But most of the time it's not really an issue, you just need to reposition. Maybe give it a try anyway :)
- jakub_g 2y agoOpera Android does support reflowing.
- viraptor 2y agoThat's amazing! I'm already on FF on Android and didn't realise they introduced it. Thank you so much. I'll finally be able to see the small images on medium and substack!
- GrayShade 2y agoYou can open it in a new tab and zoom there.
- jeffhuys 2y agoWhat browser prevents this actually? None of the browsers (even mobile) I just quickly tested just... worked? No extensions.
- jddj 2y agoI think Safari just outright ignores the maximum-scale property.
- freediver 2y agoI can look into it. Can you clarify what you mean? Article zooms in normally for me (Orion browser/iOS).
- ilt 2y agoOP might have meant that pinch and zoom is locked in and that’s why they can’t zoom into that screenshot? Edit: I can zoom in perfectly in my browser - Safari on iPhone - here.
- viraptor 2y agoIt's blocked on Firefox on Android. Another comment quoted the meta tag which disables it.
- setsewerd 2y agoNot sure if you mean you work at Kagi, but I also want to add that when opening the Android app, the splash page takes a full second or so to load before the search bar opens, which doesn't sound like much but it makes it harder to habitually use Kagi as my default mobile search. The Kagi widget technically solves this, but without installing a new launcher I can't replace the native Google search bar with the Kagi one.
- seth_at_kagi 2y agoHey - One of our engineers has fixed this. Please try again!
- jacobwinters 2y agoKagi employee here. I hate it when sites block zooming. Didn't realize our blog was doing it :S Our site's been fixed, and I opened a PR upstream.