I know the mantra: let the user decide, set font-size to 100% but ... Looking at major general news sites, popular public blogging etc sites, they ALL seem to have fonts set much smaller. This being the case surely the visually impaired surfer, being otherwise perfectly normal individuals frequenting popular public news, blogging, social sites etc, will have already set their font preferences to suit those sites they frequent.
Rather than blindly (bad term, I know) accepting the 100% font size, wouldn't a better approach be to settle on a font-size that doesn't make a client's site look like a kindergarten reader (compared to major news sites for eg) and just make sure it doesn't break under common techniques used by the visually impaired? And what "common techniques" are in use? Firefox has at least 2 different Zoom options with very different results, then there's minimum font size ... what are those who alter their browsers actually using? What should we be checking by? I would imagine setting a browser minimum font size to bring (say) cnn.com back to 100% font size equivalent would have no effect on a site set to 100% font size; very little effect on one set to say 85%; but running the browser in some zoom mode to get cnn to 100% equiv would blow our font-size 100% sites out to 150% equiv or similar!! Or have I missed something? KathyW. ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
