Why you must not disable zoom on mobile
Accessibility1 min readFixes check zoom-not-disabled
user-scalable=no stops people with low vision from enlarging the page. It is a WCAG failure; iOS Safari ignores it, but Android browsers do not.
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- Visitors can zoom the page on their phonefail · −4 ptseffort S
Visitors cannot zoom the page on their phone
Why it matters. Many people zoom web pages on their phone to read small text. A viewport tag with user-scalable=no or a low maximum-scale turns that off in Chrome on Android; only iOS Safari ignores it.
How to fix it.
- Change the viewport meta tag to <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">.
- Remove user-scalable=no, and remove maximum-scale or set it to 5 or more; in WordPress this usually lives in the theme header or a mobile plugin.