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Does the Android browser break accessibility rules?

This isn't an issue with the Android web browser, it's an issue with the web pages themselves. Developers can specify a meta tag that tells the browser "fill the view port" -- <meta name="viewport" content="width=320; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"> The browser is doing what the site is telling it to. Unfortunately, you can see they aren't doing full device detection because they are setting the width to 320 (rather than the device's specific width--no doubt due to the iPhone's resolution and popularity).

You might find Welcome to Facebook | Facebook a little better though.

If you do frequently have problems reading smaller text in the browser, you can increase the default font size in settings.
 
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