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From: Margaret Tucker
Date: Feb 25, 2005 5:10PM

Thank you for this overview Terence. I always find yours so useful.

As the president (and webmaster) of a computer pals for seniors club here in
Sydney, I have built a website for our members, who are all over 55, with an
average age of 75 in fact. (We have active learners of 89). I have used
cascading style sheets with larger than average font, and encourage our
members with vision impairment to change the font size using View/Text size.
(Mr Gates has a captive market amongst our networks, with IE being used
almost universally). But then of course the navigation bar overlaps the
content. A real problem on our course timetable page!

Very few of our members see themselves as having a disability (like most
older people) so they would never think to look for accessibility features,
even though we (and our peak body ASCCA) have encouraged them to do so (see
www.seniorcomputing.org/access.htm).

I want to use a button on each page to enlarge the font, and have the
ability to do away with the left hand navigation bar - at least
temporarily - but haven't yet learned how to do so. I'm sure there must be
a CSS solution.

Any suggestions for online tutorials on this?

Cheers

Margaret

Margaret Tucker
Webmaster
www.holroydcomputerpals.org.au

A/Office Manager
Australian Seniors Computer Clubs Association
www.seniorcomputing.org