Tom Livingston wrote: >>> idea for accessibility, it often leads to lots of horizontal scrolling > > What about a width limit (no, not a fixed width site) on the width of > the main content in relation to the rest of the page (like an article) > so as to allow the font scaling to occur vertically instead of > horizontally? This seems like a better solution to me. > > Like this maybe? > > http://66.155.251.18/mlinc.com/test/ > > Scale up. No horiz scroll. >
In Firefox, press Ctrl-+ eight times. The page breaks, with content overlapping and unreadable. In case you're wondering whether anybody would use such extreme enlargement, the answer is yes, some people do. A friend of mine with a severe visual impairment resulting from diabetes needs at least that level of enlargement, and accepts as a normal part of life that he has to scroll horizontally. Your page would simply be unusable by him. (Well, he'd have to switch over to his screen reader, but that only currently works with IE, so he'd have to fire that up, then paste the URL... you get the idea.) HTH, Nick. -- Nick Fitzsimons http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
