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Re: WCAG 2.0 and resizing text

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From: estellevw@speakeasy.net
Date: Feb 21, 2005 3:36PM


I had a similar question: is the type of + | - that can be found on pages such as: http://www.acmhs.org/what.htm adding to accessibility, detracting from it, or has positive and negative features relevant to accessibility that the effect is undetermined?

For those not wanting to visit the page: the "+" enlargens the content on the page, the "-" decreases the relative font size and "|" sets it back to the default.

Thanks.

-Estelle


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> From: morrison.ben [mailto: <EMAIL REMOVED> ]
> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 10:20 PM
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> Leo,
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> You should use relative font sizes for screen media. As explorer
> cannot resize fixed pt or px font sizes.
>
> Owen briggs did a lot of reesearch on optimum sizes:
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> http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/
>
> ben
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