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Re: Increase Font Size vs. Zoom

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From: GF Mueden
Date: Nov 9, 2012 4:26PM

Ref: "Zoom in IE makes horizontal scrolling necessary."

- - - unless word wrap has been enabled.

Have I missed something? Why not enable word wrap? Does it create
problems? It is essential for those with limited visual fields.

===gm==
On 11/9/2012 10:00 AM, Bim Egan wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Text resizing is still important as the person you spoke to said, Zoom in IE
> makes horizontal scrolling necessary. The problem is that the horizontal
> slider is very small, so if you need larger text, finding and using the
> scroll bar is almost impossible.
>
> I like Jared's thresholds, and agree that anyone whose needs exceed these
> will have had to invest in zooming software, (web pages aren't the only part
> of their computer that they'll need enlarged).
>
> If it comes down to numbers affected, please don't forget that the
> baby-boomers are all reaching or have reached an age where larger text may
> be more comfortable to read. That's a big wealthy target market.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Bim
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Ashleydale" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> To: "WebAIM Discussion List" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 10:30 PM
> Subject: [WebAIM] Increase Font Size vs. Zoom
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I generally try to ensure that web pages I work on are readable when
> someone increases the font size, by using something like IE's View-Text
> Size-Largest functionality. But now that modern browsers all let users zoom
> the entire page, I'm wondering how much effort still needs to be put in to
> ensuring that a page is readable when a user just increases the font size.
>
> I talked to someone with low vision at the last CSUN that said that he
> almost exclusively just increases the font size because zooming causes the
> page's width to expand, thereby making him have to scroll left and right
> continuously in order to read the page. It makes sense, but that's a
> usability study of one. So I wanted to check with y'all and hear your
> thoughts.
>
> We would pretty much have to completely redesign most of our company's site
> in order to get it to work with large fonts. HTML containers are not very
> forgiving. In a lot of cases, the container stays the same size and the
> text just flows out of it, either behind or on top of other text when the
> font size is increased.
>
> How important on a scale of 1 (not important) to 5 (very important) is this
> issue nowadays? Is it just a nice to have because of the zooming workaround?
>
> Looking forward to hearing your opinions.
>
> Thanks!
> David Ashleydale
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