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Re: Firefox 3 zoom tool

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Jul 2, 2008 4:00PM


> I just wanted to get some opinions on the Zoom tool they've added; do
> you think this is a good or bad step for accessibility?

Since it's an option to the alternative text resizing, I'm OK with it.

I know some people like it, other's don't (I don't).

> The other issues may be that it encourages people to stop using
> scaleable fonts.

Or, rather, they might not think to check for that in their site
designs/layouts. But we have that problem now, and I can't really blame
Firefox for bad web developers.

-Darrel