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From: John Foliot - bytown internet
Date: Mar 7, 2002 5:48AM

Veering off a little, you might want to check out the following Canadian
Government web site geared towads seniors:
http://www.seniors.gc.ca/scolPortSearchScreen.jsp?userLanguage=en&;displayCat
=ALL&font=0

As a general statement, many seniors experience problems with smaller text,
and so the developers used a .jsp routine to provide a means for their
audience to enlarge the font size via a server side script. My only regret
is the fact that they pass variables via the URL string and so the page is
not validating. None-the-less, I beleive they should get mention for
understanding and providing for the ability to enlarge the fonts.

As always JMHO

JF




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> * and then Terence de Giere declared....
> > I do not have any statistics on font size changes by users. In some
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> Shame, that's what I really need :-(
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> > Most users do not change browser defaults. As with setting font sizes
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> How do you know this? I think it a reasonable guess but it's a guess.
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> > Older users are likely to need some enlargement of fonts due to
> > deteriorating vision. The font sizes on many Web pages today are too
> > small for such users. Whether they know how to enlarge the font is a
> > good question, since so many people do not know it can be done.
>
> Again, very reasonable assumptions but where's the hard data?
>
> Seems like this is a relatively unexplored area, everyone has some
> pretty good idea that the number of people who know how to adjust their
> browsers font sizes is small but no one seems to have gathered any data
> on the subject. Well, perhaps it's something to discuss in Aprils
> accessability training eh?
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