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From: Chaals McCathie Nevile
Date: May 3, 2016 11:39AM

The US Access Board addresses font sizes for pharmaceutical labelling:
https://www.access-board.gov/guidelines-and-standards/health-care/about-prescription-drug-container-labels/u-s-pharmacopeial-convention
- see the second-last section.

The UK Parliament says financial information should be presented in
12-point or larger, with the key information in 18pt:
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200304/cmselect/cmtreasy/125/12510.htm
point 12

US truth in lending act also specifies 12 point - Cory Doctorow's post at
http://boingboing.net/2009/05/19/minimum-font-size-fo.html shows the
relevant part, in readable form, of !Warning, XML that does not display in
browses! http://thomas.loc.gov/home/gpoxmlc111/h627_eh.xml

And so on.

Or, print the thing, with the same font size as on screen, give your boss
a fat blunt pencil, and ask if s/he can fill it in.

cheers

Chaals

On Tue, 03 May 2016 16:47:36 +0100, Krack, Joseph@DSS
< <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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 :) )
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks
>
> Joe Krack
>
> > > > --
Charles McCathie Nevile - web standards - CTO Office, Yandex
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