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This is actually a really good question as it gets into an interesting tension between responsiveness and accessibility. Zooming is often a useful means of addressing visual access issues, and one cannot presume that a user will have external or in-browser apps for magnification. There is some literature on defining media queries using em/rem units instead of pixels, which would address some of the issues. http://blog.cloudfour.com/the-ems-have-it-proportional-media-queries-ftw/ https://css-tricks.com/zooming-squishes/ I can't say for certain about this, however, as I haven't tested it yet. I have now added zooming vs responsiveness to my testing criteria. Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist Information Technology Services University of Washington Libraries http://staff.washington.edu/deibel -- "When Thor shows up, it's always deus ex machina." On 2/5/2016 10:40 AM, Kyle Breneman wrote: > Happy Friday, everybody! > > Our library recently got a shiny new, responsive-esque website. > <http://langsdale.ubalt.edu> The reference librarians frequently zoom in > on our homepage during class instruction, and have noticed that after they > zoom in a bit, our homepage switches from desktop to the mobile layout. > > Is there any easy way around this? In other words, is it possible to fix > the site so that, if a user is on a desktop/laptop, zooming in on the > homepage will *not* flip the user over to the mobile layout? > > Thanks for your help! > > Kyle >