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Re: Insights on Text Resizing

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From: Jared Smith
Date: Nov 18, 2010 7:27AM

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 6:05 AM, < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> I'm trying to find out, how to quantify the term doubling (200 percent)
> the size? Can we measure it?

I think you can visually estimate this pretty accurately. If your page
is readable and functional at 200 percent but unreadable and/or
dysfunctional at 201 percent, you would be conformant, but still have
some significant accessibility issues. You can apply a local style
sheet, edit local styles, or use Firebug or similar to double the font
size, though you need to be careful with inheritance which may give
you inaccurate results. I think common sense and good judgment
generally work well here.

Because Internet Explorer does not scale pixel-sized fonts, any other
browser will probably give you a more accurate representation of font
scaling.

Jared Smith
WebAIM.org