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

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From: David Ashleydale
Date: Apr 11, 2013 1:39PM

I spoke to someone at CSUN last year that pointed out that zooming in on
the entire page is not all that helpful to him. He has very low vision and
he does need to increase the size of the text on a page fairly
significantly in order to read it. However, when you use page zoom, you end
up having to scroll left and right in order to read text and that gets old
really fast. It's very easy to lose your place when you have to do that.

So he always uses text zoom only so that nothing else on the page gets
bigger -- the page does not get wider. The text gets bigger and enlarges
its containers vertically, not horizontally. This causes the text to wrap
more, but it at least always stay in view.

Of course, he runs into numerous problems with this when web designers use
fixed container sizes and fonts specified in pixels. Almost every site I've
tried this on breaks when the text size gets too large. His dream is to get
pages to become more liquid so that the text flows more logically when it
is increased.

David Ashleydale


On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Al Sparber < <EMAIL REMOVED> >wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Al Sparber - PVII
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