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

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From: Elle Waters
Date: Apr 11, 2013 1:44PM

David:

That's super helpful insight. Thank you for sharing!

-Elle

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:39 PM, David Ashleydale < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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
>> http://www.projectseven.com
>> The Leader in Responsive Tools for Dreamweaver
>> Since 1998
>> >> >> > > >