Open Bug 1203545 Opened 9 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Make sure that Pinch To Zoom cannot be disabled in web content

Categories

(Firefox for iOS :: Browser, defect)

Other
iOS
defect

Tracking

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Tracking Status
fxios-v1.1 --- ?

People

(Reporter: MarcoZ, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: access)

Web authors can disallow pinch to zoom. However, this poses major problems for low vision users because they cannot enlarge the text on such pages and thus can't read them any more. This keeps on sticking with web developers, but as good accessible citizens, we should see if we can prevent this from happening. The following article by Henny Swan describes how pinch to zoom is supressed, and more importantly, how it can be changed to allow pinch to zoom and still get good mobile results:

http://www.iheni.com/mobile-accessibility-tip-dont-suppress-pinch-zoom/

We should add logic, if possible, to filter and fix such meta statements and make sure that pages can always be zoomed into in Firefox for iOS.
Is this really still open after 2+ years! 

It is preventing me from using Firefox on iOS after I have switched over from Android since I cannot override zoom-disabled webpages, like I can on Safari. I have tested this by opening the same URL in Firefox and Safari and Safari let's me zoom the page at will, but Firefox does not. This is on iOS 11.2 and happening on sites like https://mobile.nytime.com/

This is also happening on Firefox Focus for https://mobile.nytime.com/
Severity: normal → S3
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