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Re: Resize Text - rem with a px fallback
From: Tim Harshbarger
Date: Jun 25, 2014 8:59AM
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It probably depends on what browsers you are needing to support for your site. If the site is only intended to work with IE9 and later, I don't think it would be a fail. If the site is intended to work with older browsers, then I think it would be a problem.
Tim
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Hi,
I'm working on a responsive website and to set the size of the fonts we are using rem with a fallback in px.
This means that all modern browsers (including IE 9 and above) are able to resize the fonts (to more than 200%). However, users of Internet explorer 6, 7 and 8 will not be able to resize the fonts.
I'm wondering if text not being resizable in some legacy browsers would result in a WCAG 2 fail. Changing the fallback from px to em will involve a considerable amount of development time to fix due to the font size compounding issues with em - and will also result in a messy and harder to maintain codebase. Is using rem with a px fallback an acceptable/accessible implementation?
Here's an article with information about the approach we have taken:
http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/font-size-with-rem
This is the website I work on:
https://www.moneyadviceservice.org.uk/en?roptin=1
cheers,
Alistair Duggin
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