Design for your audience. In the vast majority of cases, the text resize widget is a distraction that clutters up a page. Nobody uses it, and people who do need to resize type will do so via the browser; it's not hard to do so. For the widget to be visible, it would have to be prominently positioned above the fold, eating up valuable real estate that could be used for content that's more compelling to visitors.
It's not 1995, and unless your site is visited by people who would need to resize type, it won't be necessary if the site is well designed. Larger type is not necessarily more readable type - it's why it's used for headlines. Like long lines of text - with long form copy, it's generally tiring, reduces comprehension, etc. And this is a pet peeve of mine, coming from working for years in advertising - it's not a good idea to pigeonhole a large population segment. The AARP is well aware that they've got a large and very diverse group of members and potential members. And it's unfair to assume that most older people are resistant to technology and online communications. Not all 50+ readers need or want to resize text; in fact, few of them do. And it's not 1995; not all 50+ people are such newbies that they don't know, or wouldn't want to know, how to resize text in a browser. Marilyn On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 8:41 PM, Don Habas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all. > > I used to see more sites that would allow a user to click icons on a web > page to adjust font size through the stylesheet. Now I'm not seeing that > as much...even AARP got rid of it and their audience is generally older, > and they would prefer larger font. Is it best to just let a user adjust > the size within their browser if needed? > > Thanks. > > Don > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > 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 > ________________________________________________________________ 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
