|
|
Posted by Cerebral Believer on 11/23/47 11:43
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.62.0603271925350.7405@ppepc56.ph.gla.ac.uk...
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2006, Cerebral Believer wrote:
>
>> Thanks once again, I think I'll look into expressing font sizes as
>> percentages for now, although I am still using points for text that
>> I don't want the user to have sizing control.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> The user doesn't *care* what you "want". If I find I'm having
> difficulties because an author specified some aspect of presentation
> that makes their site hard to use, I reckon I've got two choices:
>
> 1. Leave, or
>
> 2. Disable their presentation (and if it *still* doesn't work -
> leave).
>
> Either way, your lovingly created design is toast. My advice to you
> is to take idea that on board, and aim to please the users too,
> instead of aiming to please only yourself.
Mmmm, I'll definetly think about what you said there. I just feel that
users may not need to have sizing control over two lines of text that say
"please login, if you are not a member please register", whereas for the
main content of a page, a user would want that control. So when I say I
don't want the user to have control over certain elements of text, it's
probably because I don't feel that they need to. In the example I mentioned
(a login area), the login box and password field possibly act as visual
clues to what those items are for anyway, and as far as I know even if I set
the text so that it can be resized in those areas, the login boxes will stay
the same size. I thought of this because a visually impared man who I used
to work with, actually adjusted his screen resoloution to make pages easier
to read, so not just text gets bigger, everything does (meaning less content
shows on screen).
Regards,
C.B.
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|