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From: Randall Pope
Date: Jan 9, 2009 9:30AM

Hi Dean,

A friend told me about this particular website. How this friend found it, I
will need to ask him who is a diehard fan of Facebook. You're right there
are no options for the font size and color background. Perhaps many of the
web designers and others did not think about the low vision issues and left
this out.

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Dean Hamack
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 2:00 PM
To: WebAIM Discussion List
Subject: Re: [WebAIM] Resize text buttons

On 1/8/09 8:12 AM, "Randall Pope" < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> A good example is
> Facebook at http://m.facebook.com which does a better job than the
Foxfire's
> browser "no style" setting. In this case the Facebook team decided to use
> another domain name to address the low vision issues and using their own
CSS
> style instead of letting the browser determined the visual looks of the
> page.

That's very interesting. "m.facebook.com" is actually the mobile website
that one automatically gets redirected to when they access the site from a
mobile phone or ipod. But I don't see an option on their regular site to
switch to that layout as an option. So I would assume that most people who
have never visited facebook on a phone don't even know it exists.

Out of curiosity, how did you discover it Randy?