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From: Lauren O'Donovan
Date: Jun 4, 2009 3:10AM

And just an additional point, unless your designers are designing logos -
they shouldn't be putting the text in at the photoshop stage (for example
if the text is web content, or a button). As then the text will actually be
an image, and unreadable by screen readers.

~Lauren

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 12:55 AM, David Ashleydale < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Sorry to keep harping on this, but could someone help me find a definitive
> answer to the points vs. pixels thing? My designers keep telling me that
> Photoshop, Illustrator, etc. are their main tools and that when the WCAG
> standard says "14 pt / bold" can be considered "large", they think they
> should be able to choose 14 pt and bold in Photoshop and have that work. I
> took a look at what Photoshop considers to be 14 pt and it's a lot smaller
> than what HTML considers to be 14 pt.
>
> But they insist that they are following the WCAG standard because they
> chose
> 14 pt in Photoshop.
>
> Do any of you have an explanation for this that I can give to them? Is
> there
> a reason that 14 pt in Photoshop would be different than 14 pt in HTML?
> Which one did the WCAG mean? When I look at WebAIM's Color Contrast
> Checker,
> there is a sentence that says "I am big text." I looked at the source and
> it
> says that it is 14 pt and bold. This 14 pt is much larger than the 14 pt
> that Photoshop uses by default.
>
> 1.2 em and 1.5 em are useful units, but how big is 1 em? If it's 16 px,
> then
> 1.2 em would be about 19 px and 1.5 em would be 24 px. But one of our
> designers said he thought that 1 em was equal to 12 px, not 16 px.
>
> If choosing 14 pt in Photoshop is incorrect for following this standard,
> what should the procedure be for using Photoshop?
>
> Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. It's causing quite a stir in
> my company. ;-)
>
> Thanks,
> David
>