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From: Randall Pope
Date: Feb 8, 2009 2:20PM

"As I stated before, the zoom feature is not a substitute for the ability to
resize text."

Zoomtext and other screen magnification software use this very same
approach, used by IE7 and Firefox. How can one say this is unacceptable?

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"As I stated before, the zoom feature is not a substitute for the ability to
resize text."

Zoomtext and other screen magnification software use this technique.