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Re: WCAG 2.0 and resizing text

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From: Jon Gunderson
Date: Feb 21, 2005 5:33PM

You also need to use percentages for column widths and ems
for heights to make sure box sizes will adjust to fit the
new text sizes.

Jon


---- Original message ----
>Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 22:20:10 +0000
>From: "morrison.ben"
>Subject: Re: [WebAIM] WCAG 2.0 and resizing text
>To: "WebAIM Discussion List"
>
>
>Leo,
>
>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:
>
>http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/typography/
>
>ben
>
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