RE: FN-FORUM: stop text from resizing

date posted 14th July 2005 20:22

Very true, I've never actually forced a large text size (although in the
early days I did use px instead of em :( ).

Must admit I'd never really quite seen the point of making text size
smaller, I'm now enlightened - ta.

I spent some time reading up on colour blindness aswell last night, very
interesting reading.

I guess it all comes back to content over style - the content of the site
must always come first, it'll stand you in good stead on the search engines,
and at the end of the day the content is what people are looking for - and
there's not much point in providing content if a load of people can't
actually read it.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] Behalf Of Paul
> Silver
> Sent: 14 July 2005 12:21
> To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
> Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: stop text from resizing
>
>
>
> 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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