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RE: Font Resizers (WAS RE: back to top)

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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Jan 11, 2006 9:10AM

> Then why not provide the user with the information they
> need to use their browser fully, and give them the knowledge
> to make changes beyond the boundaries of your own web site?'

Because they don't care. They are on my site to get whatever info they
want as fast as they can and they're not going to want to jump through
hoops to be able to read it. When people visit places (online or
otherwise) they're (usually) not looking for lectures on the proper way
to do whatever they want to do...they just want what they want and to be
able to get on with it.

> A few simple instructions will serve the user far
> better than an individual mechanism on an individual site.

Have you ever tought a computer course? Have to spend a half our
explaining the concept of right-clicking? Another half hour of cut and
paste? ;o)

To be fair, on our new site, we likely will explain how to do this via
your browser as well on an ACCESSIBILITY INFO page, but as far as the
interface on each individual page, we're going to make the font resizer
as simple and intuitive as we can./

-Darrel