Nick Fitzsimons wrote:
> 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. 
>   
Not necessarily. And I have no clue what this has to do with CSS, but 
have you, or /your friend/, tried that particular page at 800% in Opera9b?
Personally I hate horizontal scroll bars...
> (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.
>   
~dL

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