Zooming is disabled: How to Fix It in WordPress (WCAG 1.4.4)

Zooming is disabled: How to Fix It in WordPress (WCAG 1.4.4)

WCAG 2.2 success criterion 1.4.4 Resize Text (Level AA)

People with low vision pinch to zoom on phones to read small text and see details in images. A viewport tag that disables zooming locks them out of reading the page at all. Some themes and "app-like" performance settings still add it.

Who it affects: Keyboard, screen reader and low-vision users — every visitor meets the page title, language, landmarks, keyboard focus, target sizes and zoom settings on every page.

Checked in review mode's Whole page tab: a viewport meta tag with user-scalable=no (or 0), or a maximum-scale below 2.

Remove "user-scalable=no" and any "maximum-scale" below 2 from the viewport meta tag. It usually comes from the theme's header or a performance plugin setting.

This check is free. Open any post, choose Accessibility in the admin bar, then the Whole page tab: Lumtera checks the page as your browser renders it, theme, menus and footer included, one page at a time. Lumtera Pro also checks the viewport tag on a daily or weekly schedule, fetching up to 25 key pages and templates from the server as a logged-out visitor, and emails you (or posts to Slack) when a new error appears.

All 64 checks, the editor sidebar, Elementor panel and site report — free, with no account and no page limits.

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