RE: FN-FORUM: stop text from resizing

date posted 14th July 2005 11:50

Agree completely with your sentiments, but you should not force a nice
large size either. Text should be re-sizeable. If you have Retinitis
Pigmentosa you may actually prefer a small text size rather than a large
one.

There's an enormous range of visual impairments as the eye and brain can
go wrong in all sorts of bizarre, horrible and interesting ways. Not
locking text sizes means the visitor gets the flexibility they need to
view things they way that is easiest for them, thus improving their
opinion of your site and services.

(NB: This is not trying to have a go at you in any way, Jonathan, it's
just about accessibility in general.)

Cheers

Paul

On 13 Jul 2005 14:25:25 -0000, "Jonathan Patchett" said:
>
> nooooooo
>
> Check the Disbilities Discrimination act. Deliberatly forcing a font size
> isn't strictly speaking legal (unless your forcing it to a nice large
> size),
> also using images is bad for search engine optimisation. Only way is to
> make
> sure your design can cope with being resized, menus, tabs and all.
>
> I've not long changed over to XHTML and CSS - using lists for menus
> etc...
> and wouldn't dream of going back.
>
> We're in a period of quiet regarding the DDA while they give people a
> chance
> to catch up, but sooner or later it's going to start being enforced.
> Leaving
> the law behind it's just good practice to avoid excluding people from
> viewing a website, because of their browser/device/disablities or
> whatever
> other reason (accepting you can't put a website into 1000 languages).
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of ArtCaf
> > Sent: 13 July 2005 11:57
> > To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> > Subject: FN-FORUM: stop text from resizing
> >
> >
> >
> > ok thanks everyone... yep i used an image instead...
> > phew up till 6am thismorning!!
> > reminds me of the good old days accept this time there was no
> > mountain empty
> > beer cans and pizza box's piled around the pc :)
> >
> >
> >
> > R i c h a r d
> > R i c h i e B . n e t
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