Sandy wrote: > >> the site >>> needs to work for people who will be increasing text size and also >>> for those who will be using a screen reader. > >> Then set no font less than default, and ditch the Verdana and MS >> stuff: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif will do. > >> Letter-spacing content text is not helping their cause. > >> You are dropping the right col with a heavy + hand-- and same if >> minimum font-size is set in the prefs at 24 in FF and 32 in Opera. If >> you use em you'll need to declare font-size 100% on html or the fonts >> will go totally goofy in IE when scaled. > > Hi Helen K. - or is this David? > > Thanks for your input. I've made some changes > http://sandyfeldman.com/ana/10test.shtml > > and I have some questions - why not Verdana or "trebuchet MS"?
Use whatever does it for you and your clients /visually impaired users/. Neither of the above fits the bill in my book. Verdana was designed in 1996 for low resolution monitors in use at that time. It is ugly at default and larger. Trebuchnet MS is not much better. "Why you should avoid the Verdana font" <http://www.xs4all.nl/~sbpoley/webmatters/verdana.html> > > letter-spacing on browser text is often really tight - a small bit of > opening up seems to increase legibility to me. I can understand > objecting to the kind of spacing that ends up looking like "t h i s" > but a .1em just looks to me like it makes things better. Is there > something I'm not thinking of? > Do whatever does it for you and your clients /visually impaired users/ with the content text. Generally it is not a good practice to tinker with a type-designers text font. > > I'm not sure what you mean by "You are dropping the right col with a > heavy + hand--" Hold the ctrl key [or apple key] and repeatedly bang the + key in FF. Current accessibility requirements, of which the /visually impaired/ qualify, call for use and funtionality of typography at *twice default.* You are also dropping at 24px minimum font-size in FF and at 32 minimum in Opera. > > thanks again for taking the time to help me think about this. May be you should ask some of your clients users what they think before making up their mind for them? > > Sandy > > Best, Helen -- http://chelseacreekstudio.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [[email protected]] 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/
