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From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Jan 11, 2006 5:34PM

> Which then becomes a circular argument: as long as there is a
> resizing widget on a page, users will remain blissfully
> ignorant and assume that, without such a widget, there is no
> way for them to resize the text, which then perpetuates the
> whole issue.

And not having the widget does the same thing. They STILL don't know
they can resize the type.

> Wonderful. They may also be 90% visually impaired and access
> the web on a deaf friend's machine without any speakers.
> Let's cater for that scenario at *our* end as well then...

You seem to be determined to people everywhere to figure out how their
browser works. More power to you. We, though, just want to make sure our
customers can get the information on our site as quickly and easily as
possible.

-Darrel