On May 27, 2011, at 9:02 AM, John Reck wrote: > I have been investigating an issue where accessibility features on WebKit > based browsers don't work on some sites. Specifically, the "Minimum font > size" setting and the "Text zoom" is being ignored on some sites. It turns > out that sites having this issue are using the CSS property > "-webkit-text-size-adjust: none". [http://techcrunch.com/ (mobile version) > is a site that exhibits this behavior, or > http://kllrnohj.com/test/textsize.html for a more extreme example.] Searches > for this CSS property indicated that is is mainly used by sites that want to > prevent the text size from automatically being adjusted on iOS when the > device is rotated. > > Given the importance of supporting accessibility, we are investigating > completely disabling this CSS property in our browser. We have not seen any > uses cases except for platforms that automatically adjust text size (and even > on those platforms it seems like a bug that the site should be able to > override the browsers accessibility settings). > > Before opening a bug or submitting a patch for review, I would be interested > in finding out if this issue has already been discussed, if there are any use > cases we have missed, and any thoughts on approaches to resolve this issue. > The simplest solution is to completely ignore this property on platforms that > don't automatically adjust text size, but we may have missed some other cases > where this property could be useful.
This is related: <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56543> Sites most likely use -webkit-text-size-adjust:none for iOS, but it has a different behavior on desktop. This was not intended behavior. Simon
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