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From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Jan 11, 2006 5:20PM

Penny Roberts wrote:
> Patrick Lauke wrote:
>
>> a "zoom text" stylesheet with very large fonts
>
> Ah now stylesheet changer widgets... as a user I just *love* them. I
> suffer from dry eye syndrome and white backgrounds are too bright
> (imagine that your eyes are spot welded to the screen). I don't want to
> override the author's styles completely; I just need an occasional
> change from black on bright white (I actually find white text on a black
> background far easier to use).
> I used to regularly go to view>page style but there's rarely an
> alternative so I gave up looking. Having a style changer on the page is
> great because it alerts me to the fact that there are other styles
> available.
>
> Penny (opening a new can of worms... )

Ok, let's empty this new can of worms then. In your situation then,
what's better: asking each and every developer to incorporate a style
sheet switching mechanism (with its own site specific idiosyncrasies,
choices of styles, etc), or to ask browser developers to fix this issue
at its root and allow for far more granular, and far more readily
accessible and obvious, control over how content is presented?

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Patrick H. Lauke
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