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RE: WAI needs to rethink and revisit (was Printable character between adjacent links)

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From: Michael R. Burks
Date: May 17, 2002 6:35AM

I have found that locked down font sizes cause huge problems for users who
need to make the fonts bigger to read them. Not everyone knows how to get
around this and the workaround can cause other issues.

Yes they need to rethink many thing, including the complexity of the
guidelines.

Sincerely,

Mike Burks

-----Original Message-----
From: John Foliot - bytown internet [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 9:02 AM
To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
Subject: RE: WAI needs to rethink and revisit (was Printable character
between adjacent links)


Hear, hear!!

I am currently embroiled in a debate with an associate over the use (or
non-use) of fixed font sizes. His argument is that if he does not use fixed
font sizes in his stlyesheets that the "display" becomes unpredictable in
different browers/OS implementations. He points to the WAI Guidelines
wording as justification: (This statement is found in the Guidelines
(http://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG10/)) "3.4 Use relative rather than absolute
units in mark-up language attribute values and style sheet property values.
[Priority 2] For example, in CSS, use 'em' or percentage lengths rather
than 'pt' or 'cm', which are absolute units. If absolute units are used,
validate that the rendered content is usable"

While I feel comfortable in debating the folly of this mind set it does open
the debate up, as the WAI wording is counterproductive and, IMHO against the
spirit of Universal Accessibility.

How can we, as committed developers and advocates, influence the W3C to
revisit their wording? Thoughts?

JF




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael R. Burks [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: May 16, 2002 9:35 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: RE: Printable character between adjacent links
>
>
> Just one more reason that the WAI needs to rethink and revisit
> much of what
> they recommend.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Mike Burks
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prof Norm Coombs [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 8:57 AM
> To: <EMAIL REMOVED>
> Subject: RE: Printable character between adjacent links
>
>
> As a blind user of the Internet,
>



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