![]() The Wuppertal Reservoir has a capacity of about 25 million liters, but in the winter of 2020 the basin held only a trickle Image: Federico Gambarini/dpa/picture alliance Water levels in some of Germany's dams have been sinking Image: Imago/blickwinkel/F.Herrmann But Jörg Rechenberg, head of the Water and Soil Division at the Federal Environment Agency (UBA), says it's difficult to draw a direct connection between the state of groundwater levels and the dryness of the soil. ![]() ![]() Most drinking water in Germany - more than 70% of it - is sourced from groundwater. So is fresh water already becoming scarce? And that's a problem, because dams secure part of Germany's drinking water supply. The water level in some dams is far below average. "But actually there have been deviations from the long-term average of the water balance there for several years." Water shortages in winter?Īccording to Borchardt, there has been too little rainfall so far this winter - just like the two previous winters. "There has been a significant water deficit building up in many regions in Germany, especially in the last three years," explains Dietrich Borchardt, head of the UFZ Water Resources and Environment Research Unit. When there's so little moisture deep underground, it's the trees whose roots draw water from these layers that suffer the most. Its latest map shows widespread dark red patches in deeper layers of soil - in other words, very severe drought. The UFZ's monitor uses shades of red to indicate degrees of dryness in the soil across the country. ![]() But January 2021 is clearly proving to be drier than the same period last year. Thank you, Patrick, for those tips.Germany's ground isn't quite as parched now as it was in June or September, according to the drought monitor at the Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research (UFZ). Also, good advice on starting at 640 pixels in the browser viewport width, then zooming to 200% to test for Reflow. That allows the Chrome browser viewport to be resized below 500 pixels. On, 17:11, "Newton, Brooks (TR Product)" wrote:Īha! Nice workaround by docking the Chrome DevTools to the side. It's worth poking around features like hamburger menus and anything that isn't standard content as you go through those connotations, but once you've done it on one page of a site you can narrow down to the differences on other pages. Gradually zoom out looking for areas of text that have been cut off, and check that menus & complex features work. Check for any sticky headers/footers that block the view (not a fail, but we bring that up as a 'best practice' issue) ![]() Check for text that hasn't re-sized to at least 200% Zoom until the effective width is 320px (which is 400% from 1280) Set the window to wider than the largest breakpoint (usually 1280 wide does that) If it helps, I tend to test reflow, text-size & text-spacing at the same time: Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. My preference is to test at 320 CSS width and not start at 1280 width and zoom to 400% - but I haven't proven examples where it could be different.Ĭc: Re: How to test for WCAG 2.1 SC 1.4.10 Reflow - Level AA?ĬAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. I believe Chrome will show you the values as you drag but Firefox requires a setting change in order for those values to be display. I also recommend docking the dev tools to the side when testing and resizing. ![]()
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