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Re: Which of these is better for screenreaders?

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From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
Date: Jan 9, 2009 9:45AM

On 9/1/09 16:30, Randall Pope wrote:
> I have
> many low vision surfers screaming for multi choices of font sizes and
> colors. The main reason for this is many cannot afford to buy accessible
> screen enlarger program such as Zoomtext and others.

Interesting. Do you know why they are trying to fix this on a site by
site basis rather than using:

1. Windows' built-in high contrast settings.

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/training/default.aspx

2. Simply enforcing their own zoom, text size, style, color, and font
choices in their browser of choice:

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie6/

http://www.microsoft.com/enable/products/ie7/

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Accessibility

http://www.opera.com/docs/usercss/

3. One of the various free/cheap magnifiers available?

http://www.magnifiers.org/links/Download_Software/Screen_Magnifiers/Windows_Freeware_and_shareware/

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Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis