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From: Rick
Date: Mar 25, 2006 5:40AM


Good Morning WebAIM ...

On 24 Mar 2006 at 17:55, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> But that's completely irrelevant, as the text in the browser dialog
> matches the size of the text of the rest of the broweser controls and
> the OS itself. If somebody really has a problem with that font size,
> they'll set their entire system to use large font size, and not just the
> text size of the browser's content area. So it's a moot point, IMHO.

But they can only do that if they own or control the computer -- at
home, or at work if they are allowed to.

I don't have statistics for the number or proportion of people who
rely on public machines (eg: in libraries, community centres,
Internet caf