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From: Brian Lovely
Date: May 3, 2016 10:02AM

Can the text be resized easily and without breaking the layout to the point of non-functionality?

Brian Lovely
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> On May 3, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Krack, Joseph@DSS < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
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> I just got hired at a large department in the state of California and will begin addressing how they produce their forms. Their forms and documents are in pretty bad shape in regards to accessibility.
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> One of the items I will address is font size. The rules they are currently use come from another even larger state agency and it allows font sizes from 6 to 12 on forms. Now obviously 6 is too small for most people to read (a large quantity of forms are still sent to the printer and filled in with pen and pencil by clients), but feel that I need some sort of 'official' documentation in order to convince them to stop using such small fonts. (something stronger than just common sense :) )
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> I don't believe WCAG or 508 says anything about font size (except in closed functionality systems), is there anything/any standard out there that addresses this? Any documentation I can use as ammunition.
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> Thanks
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> Joe Krack
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