I kind of agree. There are (potential) problems to this approach though.
1.) Users may find your font-size changing "widget" no clearer or easier to use than the browser option (think of the standard + and - icons / links on many sites). 2.) If users never learn the browser option, and you provide alternatives for your site, this still leaves users with a problem on other sites, or looking for widgets on every site they visit. I believe we need to make ease of use a priority, but if we try to replicate standard browser / OS functions, instead of helping users to find and use those functions, are we really helping? ----- Original Message ---- From: Will Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Dan Saffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: IXDA list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, 4 June, 2008 3:20:37 PM Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Ability to Adjust Font Sizes on Web Pages Agreed. Explicit font-size adjustment on screen is best. I had to set it manually for my parents, and while the percentage of people over 65 becoming more and more savvy is increasing at an amazing rate - hidden functions like adjusting text size is something that escapes them (that is - the people over 60 that I have personally tested on web apps). -w On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Dan Saffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:59 AM, G.Jason Head wrote: > > In this day and age, I would that most people who need to >> increase their font sizes in their web browser already know how to do >> it. Even more, they probably have increased their font size long >> before they got to your web site anyway. >> > > Unlikely. The people who most need to increase font size are people 65+, > which is the group least-likely to be skilled enough to have adjusted > settings (which is already a minority of people). ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help __________________________________________________________ Sent from Yahoo! Mail. A Smarter Email http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
