New issue
Advanced search Search tips
Note: Color blocks (like or ) mean that a user may not be available. Tooltip shows the reason.

Issue 774460 link

Starred by 1 user

Issue metadata

Status: Archived
Owner: ----
Closed: Sep 13
Cc:
Components:
EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Linux , Windows , Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



Sign in to add a comment

javascript alerts font size locked, ruining accessibility

Reported by jidanni@gmail.com, Oct 13 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/61.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Cannot zoom javascript alerts

User gets an alert, like the one you can try on
https://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_alert

However **let's say the text is too small**.

User desperately tries to zoom it with CTRL++.

Well try it and see.

Here the user is, trying to see the important message.

But he can't because it is too small.

The most important messages on the net come in the form of alerts.

But that is the only thing he **cannot** zoom in chromium.

What irony, the most important thing, but he can't read it.

OK let's try an experiment, back at

https://www.w3schools.com/js/tryit.asp?filename=tryjs_alert

first zoom the page, now trigger the alert.

We see that chromium has a fixed size for alerts no matter what you do.

Shouldn't it at least change with the webpage current zoom level?

And please do make CTRL++ affect it.

What is gained by not allowing CTRL++ to affect it?

You might say that is how the web works. Well please make it work better.

The whole model is from before the days of accessibility standards.

chromium gets a Failure in accessibility here.

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
How can you allow users to zoom one thing but not another?
What sense does that make? None.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 61.0.3163.100  Channel: stable
OS Version: 
Flash Version:
 

Comment 1 by jidanni@gmail.com, Oct 13 2017

Also one can hit many CTRL++++ but nothing happens.
Nothing until he clicks the blue OK button on the alert.
And then whammo! All the CTRL++++'s are applied!
That is definitely wrong!
Without initial feedback the user thinks hit CTRL++ are thrown away.
When they finally get applied they will certainly overzoom the page, and unless the user was originally at CTRL+0 zoom level, it won't be easy for him to restore his exact state, without slowly trying each CTRL+- zoom level back down again.

Comment 2 by jidanni@gmail.com, Oct 13 2017

(And of course he was not originally at CTRL+0 zoom level, else he wouldn't be complaining the alert font was too small.)
Cc: susanjuniab@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug Needs-Triage-M61 M-63 OS-Mac OS-Windows Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
This as Feature request as the reporter wants the Zoom in/out using ctrl +/- for alert box as well.

Marking this as 'Untriaged' for further updates from Dev.

Thanks..
Status: Archived (was: Untriaged)
Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over 180 days.

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!
Archiving old bugs that haven't been actively assigned in over 180 days.

If you feel this issue should still be addressed, feel free to reopen it or to file a new issue. Thanks!

Sign in to add a comment