Chrome for Android could get this previously only desktop feature
For websites whose scale is a little too small
Sometimes websites just don’t adapt well to mobile screens, and for those of us with below average vision, that means squinting and relying on accessibility services like Force zoom activation. On the desktop, there’s a sleeker solution that scales the entire website to make it look bigger, and judging by a recent Chrome Canary 97 update, this feature is catching on. the mobile version of the browser.
The new option was discovered by Redditor Leopeva64-2, and it is currently hidden behind a flag: chrome: flags # enable-accessibility-page-zoom. When enabled, the option adds a Zoom section of the site menu to the left of a URL, represented either by a padlock icon or by an arrow pointing down. In it, you can activate different zoom levels, allowing you to tailor the content more comfortably to your eyes on a per page basis.
A similar option already exists under Settings -> Accessibility, but it only allows you to change the text scaling globally, so it’s active for every website you visit, making it much less flexible than the new solution. In the same settings menu, you can also check a Force zoom activation box that lets you zoom in on any website, but only helps when you want to zoom in on a specific part of a site.
With the feature only available in version 97 of Chrome Canary, it will likely take a while before it becomes stable, and it’s entirely possible that Google will keep it hidden behind a flag for longer. We’ll be sure to update you once you can activate it in the stable version of Chrome.
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