Hi Terrance > From: Terrence Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > All good questions. I read somewhere recently that a seasoned usability tester observed one person changing the font size > > for the very first time.
I wrote about that here recently. I've run hundreds of usability sessions and that was the first time I'd ever seen a user resize text via the browser, completely unprompted. The same user also right clicked a link to open it in a new window. I have to admit, it was pretty amazing to see! When I wrote to the list about it, there were jokes about it being usability 'pr0n' - which went right over my head. Because, while I might be geeky enough to get excited about resizing text or right clicking a link, I never got into all of that! Having said that, there was some truth to it. So going back to Rimantas questions, my experience would be to answer for each: 'Very few (non-web developer users)'. But I don't have any stats on this, it's purely based on observation during usability evaluations. Hope that helps Rimantas? > Rimantas Liubertas: > > > a) How many users do know that there exists a preference for a font > > size. > > b) How many of the do know how to use it and indeed do use it. > > c) How many have an idea what 'px' or 'pt' is, and have an > idea how big > > is 16pt/px. Same goes for DPI settings. > > d) How many users prefer to play with settings instead of doing what > > they were going to do in the first place (getting info)? > > All good questions. I read somewhere recently that a seasoned > usability > tester observed one person changing the font size for the very first > time. We may well conclude that the answer to the above questions are > "not many", however, I sense that they are largely rhetorical. In any > case, they illustrate very well the reason(s) why it is > better to have > a font that's too big than one that's too small. Lisa ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
