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From: Patrick Lauke
Date: Jan 11, 2006 8:34AM

> Penny Roberts

> That isn't the case. Some people need a font far bigger than
> most of us
> would be comfortable with.

But would they just need it on *your* site, or would they not need it across all sites, and even across all their other applications and system dialogs etc? That's one of the things I had a bit of a discussion with Joe Clark over a while ago: having a "zoom text" stylesheet with very large fonts wouldn't really serve users who need large type, as they'd already have their system's default font size set to be large enough to be comfortable, have their resolution set to 800x600 or smaller, or would already be using a screen magnifier. Same with providing an inverted colours sheet...if you need it, you'd have your entire OS set to show high contrast/inverted, and your browser set to ignore author defined colours.

Patrick
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