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From: Malcolm Wotton
Date: Jan 10, 2006 9:00PM

Chris Heilmann said
> it. If the browser controls were be more obvious -

But they're not :(

in my experience there is is a developing iconography for Font Resizers, if
you see a graphic 'A' in a box it generally represents a font feature, this
is reinforced if there are a range of similar icons at different sizes.

so in a practical world what's more accessible? remember that nearly all web
standards were once innovations by software developers or site designers.
While I am in favour of standards, I am also in favour of innovation, and it
seems to me that this innovation (if implemented well) does not degrade the
experience for anyone, if anything it draws attention to the fact that fonts
can be resized.

Malcolm