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

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From: Steve Green
Date: Apr 11, 2013 3:40PM

Zooming text only is perfect for me, and I hope they don't drop it. I only need it on a small percentage of websites and I work on dozens of machines that are shared by other people so I don't want to mess with settings in the OS or browser.

Zooming the whole page is useless in so many ways. Horizontal scrolling and increased line length are obvious ones, and there is no benefit (for me) in having larger images. It also requires far greater mouse movement.

Steve Green

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From: <EMAIL REMOVED> [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ] On Behalf Of Al Sparber
Sent: 11 April 2013 22:31
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Subject: Re: [WebAIM] IE doesn't increase font-size in px

On 4/11/2013 3:39 PM, David Ashleydale wrote:

> 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.

Then the page would behave like a page zoom - logically speaking, of course :-)

The bottom line is that if someone has problems with smaller text, he or she will have taken the time to explore the accessibility options built into his or her computers and browsers.