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Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 08/04/06 20:44
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> But why? If you set your page to use 100% for base content font size,
> the visitors will see it in their preferred size. Why complicate matters
> so much?
Quite. I know one soi-disant accessibility site which offers text in
three sizes - what I would call "microscopic", "too small", and
"almost big enough", as seen on my display (desktop or lap). On
initial entry to the site, the default text size is "microscopic".
How on Earth is a visitor who needs text much larger than what is
needed by mainstream users, ever going to find the microscopic
instructions for doing so? Easy: one way is by overriding the
author's font sizing in favour of the reader's choice. The menu with
the three (why only three? Even MesSIE offers five!) then shows all
three sizes the same, does nothing, and therefore becomes a pointless
nuisance, trying, on every page, to lure the reader away from the tool
which really works. (They failed HTML validation, CSS too, but you'd
probably expect that).
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