RE: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

[Trisha Salas]

I haven't been totally following this thread, but My 15 yo son has low 
vision.  It has come on very recently (last 6 months), He is 20/200 corrected.  
We have discovered the zoom feature on the old version of Mac OSx... he prefers 
it much more than enlarging text.  We have played with some of the 
accessibility features on the the PC and they don't work for him.  He has his 
own pc laptop and and hasn't been on it in months, he prefers to use my mac 
after I go to bed.  The left right scroll and design in general becomes 
irrelevant in these situations.  He wants to do what everyone else does and 
doesn't really care about scrolling to do it.

His issues have affected how I feel as a developer.  It really does boil down 
to usability.

We are going to get some more testing and in depth help the 25th of this month 
(for any who are wondering).  I am sure I will learn about all the things they 
have to offer him beyond zooming on a mac but for now this is working for us.

-Trisha in Tulsa


-Original Message-
From: Al Sparber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thu 7/3/2008 2:41 PM
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Subject: Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming


For folks who need to increase the text size for a specific page (perhaps 
because the designer set microscopic font-sizes) a true zoom, rather than a 
text resize, preserves the line-length proportions in a fixed-width layout.


 Or would they be using screen magnification software anyway, and it
 wouldn't make a difference to them?

Probably not.

There are far more important issues to get bogged down in ;-)



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RE: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming

[Trisha Salas]

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More important than anything we can discuss here, I wish your son well and 
pray that his vision problems are managed. 

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Al,

Thanks for the thoughts and prayers...it appears that there isn't anything they 
can really do at this point.  We are just going to have to learn how to manage 
this.  It is a bit frustrating because this kid is the most physically active 
and high energy of my kids and he is frustrated at times with this limitation.

I will say this has really changed the way I think about usability and design.  
It has become 'real' to me and not just a best practice (which I tried to 
adhere to before)

It is interesting to read all the opinions and discussion because it helps me 
think through things whether I agree or not.

Thanks!
Trisha in Tulsa


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