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Re: IE doesn't increase font-size in px

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From: Al Sparber
Date: Apr 11, 2013 1:27PM

On 4/11/2013 3:15 PM, Angela French wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It appears that IE 9 (IE 10?) still does not increase font size when
> css is in pixels. Is this considered an accessibility failure
> considering one can zoom instead?

If the default behavior was to zoom text only, I would consider it an
accessibility issue. But since the IE9 defaults to page zoom as its
default, I personally do not consider it an accessibility issue. That
said, I tend to use em units anyway :-)

I also think that when Firefox switches to the Webkit platform, its
option to zoom text only will disappear.

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