What is your technique for checking this aspect? What I do other than
using browswerlab and browswershots, is to change the resolution on
my monitor. I also hold down ctrl and +, to enlarge the font to see
how it looks. Are these proven methods?
New browsers can zoom whole pages, and that's enough to test for
regular window-size weaknesses. Most new browsers also have one or more
forms of font resizing, and that's usually enough to test for such
resizing weaknesses.
1: I always test in the original "page-zoom" browser, Opera, and also
set its 'minimum font size' to '32'.
- On my system 'm.f.s = 32' equals 200% of browsers' default font size,
which equals WCAG recommendation - as I read it. *
2: I always test in IE 6/7/8, both with regular font resizing and with
accessibility font resizing. **
- When I don't have full IE versions available, I use IETester.
- Doesn't matter to me whether a site supports older IE versions or not,
as testing in them always produces useful information about a site's
integrity and design-quality.
3: Brief testing in latest versions of other browsers completes my
test-round. Usually "nothing to report" for sites that survive the above
reasonably well.
* A large number of web sites fails and become more or less unusable
when subjected to 200% of browsers' default font size. Added to and/or
included in that number come sites that are not properly cross-browser
tested and/or rely on browser peculiarities.
** A large number of web sites fails and become more or less unusable
when subjected to accessibility font resizing in IE. Low accessibility
awareness is commonplace.
regards
Georg
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