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From: andyof
Date: Oct 4, 2004 9:46AM

Hi,

Making websites accessible is new territory for my company, and has brought up
many issues which people are passionate about. One of them is weather we
should have a design of fixed width rather than a scaleable one. Log file
analyses indicates that most of our users have a 1024 x 768 screen resolution
and many people favor building for this resolution. My questions are:

Is it ok to do this and be DDA complaint? (I couldn't find anywhere that
said it couldn't be fixed, but did see plenty of information on making elements
of a page scaleable-fonts etc)
Are log file data on screen resolution reliable?

Any experiences in this area would be much appreciated.

Andyof