>From my experience there are a lot of people who have got a vision impairment, yet do not use Magnifiers or don't know how to manually change the browser font size. If you think about it - a "vision impairment" could be just caused by old age or even tiredness. Just because somebody has got slight difficulties reading small font doesn't mean they go off and buy themselves a Screen Magnifier. And in particular older people might not know how modify their browsers to increase the font size.
Having said that - the stylesheet swapping links on websites (such as on the Sydney Morning Herald) are very often so user-unfriendly, they end up being completely useless. I mean: how many people will guess that a small "A" will decrease the font size on your browser, a larger "A" will increase it? In particular for people who do have a vision impairment, that's not the easiest functionality to detect and use. If you introduce such features, make them obvious. And if possible, write them in BIG FONT. :) That's my two cents. Cheers, Andreas. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David McKinnon Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2005 12:49 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Font resizing I was just wondering what everyone's opinion of font resizing using stylesheet swapping? I'm wondering if it's still useful given that it's useless to people using screen readers, people with vision impairment will probably be more likely to us a screen magnifier, and others can use their browser's own font sizing -- command-+ and so on. I notice that the Sydney Morning Herald's new design font resizing, but offers just two font sizes: normal and bigger and only for some pages. Any thoughts? ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ****************************************************** ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
