I've have a love/hate relationship with text-resize widgets. On the one
hand - the widget plays a role in increasing the accessibility of
content - something I think is very important.
On the other hand, far too many people began to use them because "its a
cool Cool CSS trick" or worse, if they actually did have accessibility
in mind when including it, they used it as a crutch to not better design
the site to be more readable/accessible.
One other note - I've observed Usability studies on sites that included
text resize widgets, and even probed users to see if they understood
what it was/how to use it. In these studies most, if not all, the
participants I observed, that would benefit from the widget's
functionality, had no idea what it was.
-adam connor
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