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Re: Insights on Text Resizing

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From: Dawn Budge
Date: Nov 18, 2010 8:42AM

IE will not take you up to 200% zoom with its standard controls.
In Firefox, go to View>Zoom and check Zoom Text Only. Starting from the
base zoom level, press Ctrl + 6 times to get to 200% zoom level. There is
also an add-on called No-Squint if you'd rather do that.

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Sent: 18 November 2010 13:07
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Subject: [WebAIM] Insights on Text Resizing

Need some insights on the text resizing success criteria of WCAG 2.0. As
per WCAG 2.0, the page should be readable and functional even when the
font size is doubled. In this context, by how much percentage does IE
increases the font size when we change it from medium - larger and
larger - largest using the options provided in text size.

I'm trying to find out, how to quantify the term doubling (200 percent)
the size? Can we measure it? I tried some toolbars for it, but did not
get what I'm looking for. Is there any other better way to look at this?

peace, veiky

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