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Re: Fixed font-sizes and WAI or 508

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From: Karl Core
Date: Feb 1, 2004 2:24PM


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From: "Jukka K. Korpela" < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
To: < <EMAIL REMOVED> >
Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 4:04 PM
Subject: Re: Fixed font-sizes and WAI or 508


> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>
> > However I believed that the guidelines said that you
> > should not use fixed font-sizes.
>
> As far as I can see, the guidelines don't say that. Since fixed
> font-sizes, which are typically small, affect far more people than most
> WCAG 1.0 guidelines, this just proves that accessibility shall not be
> identified with accessibility guidelines, which in turn shall not be
> identified with the reports of purported accessibility checkers.

Hear Hear!
If I have to explain the shortcomings of "bobby" to another client, I'm
going to explode.

-Karl



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