Posted by Alan J. Flavell on 01/08/06 13:49

On Sun, 8 Jan 2006, Adrienne Boswell wrote:

> Images with text can be a problem, especially if the text is small.

Agreed.

> There is no way for the user to resize (except for Opera).

There's no way provided in the browsers' standard user interface,
agreed; but if you look around for bookmarklets/favelets, you can find
ways of doing it in other browsers.

However, there's no guarantee that zooming an image of text will
really make it more readable. On the other hand, if the author has
done their job properly, any substantive text appearing in the image
would normally have been made available in the alt= attribute, so
maybe that's the place to look for enlightenment, if push comes to
shove. (When you find that the author didn't have a clue about alt
text, you can always leave...)

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