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Re: Font size - user control

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Sep 17, 2004 11:34AM

Wendy.

The W3C User Agent Accessibility Guidelines [1] requires user
control for rendering text. Notably the folowing
requirements:

Checkpoint 4.1 Configure text scale (P1)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-UAAG10-
20021217/guidelines.html#tech-configure-text-scale

Checkpoint 4.2 Configure font family (P1)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-UAAG10-
20021217/guidelines.html#tech-configure-font-family

Checkpoint 4.3 Configure text colors (P1)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/REC-UAAG10-
20021217/guidelines.html#tech-configure-text-color

Jon

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/UAAG10

---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 12:37:21 -0400
>From: "wmullin"
>Subject: [WebAIM] Font size - user control
>To: "WebAIM Discussion List"
>
>
>Hi -
>
>I've always assumed that, for accessibility when developing
Web pages,
>you should let the user be able to override your font size
with browser
>controls, such as using IE's View | Text Size controls, or
using the
>browsers accessibility features.
>
>However, as I am preparing a presentation on accessibility
for some of
>my coworkers, I cannot find a 508 or W3C/WAI
standard/guideline that
>states that one should not override the users ability to
control font
>size.
>
>The closest I could find is the W3C/WAI's: Priority 2: 3.4
Use relative
>rather than absolute units in markup language attribute
values and style
>sheet property values.
>
>* Will using relative rather than absolute units always
allow the user
>to manipulate font size?
>* Are there any other applicable checkpoints/standards I'm
>overlooking?
>
>Thanks.
>
>Wendy
>
>Wendy R. Mullin
>University of South Carolina, Web Developer
>1244 Blossom Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29208
>voice: 803-777-6785 | fax: 803-777-4149
>
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Jon Gunderson, Ph.D., ATP
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