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From: Nathalie Sequeira
Date: Oct 10, 2010 12:42AM

Hi Donna,

> i'm
> doing some work for someone and she wants me to use pixels and i really
> feel adverse to it - rather use "em" or "%".
What came to mind first thing when I read this was how you can explain
that the use of relative font sizes is an important asset of a quality
website.
Not knowing what part of the world you're in (and legal requirements
being, AFAIK, not so extremely binding anywhere...), I remembered an old
but still true article that lists economic arguments for accessibility:

http://articles.sitepoint.com/article/sell-web-accessibility
You may want to check the statistics for your country and plug in where
the author uses UK stats.
These arguments usually help my clients realize they're shooting
themselves in the leg if they choose to ignore accessibility aspects :)

Good luck!
Nathalie