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From: Aaron Cannon
Date: May 29, 2008 10:50AM

>>> Shawn Henry < <EMAIL REMOVED> > 5/28/2008 2:29 PM >>>

...
> You _can_ also add a stylesheet switcher, as long as the basic
> stylesheet allows font-resizing in the browsers regardless of such a
> switcher.
> The simplest (and oldest) switch-version is found here...
> <http://www.alistapart.com/stories/alternate/>;
> ...but there are plenty of alternatives around.

You can instead (or in addition) teach users how to change the text size using their browser functionality. See "Text Resize Widgets and Fishing" at http://www.uiaccess.com/textresizewidgetno.html

~Shawn


I believe this is the best option. If you teach your users how to increase the size using their browser, you don't have to mess with making sure it carries over to all of your pages, and your users will be better off, because they can potentially use that information to help them enlarge sites other than yours.

Aaron

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