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From: Paul Collins
Date: Tue, Jul 01 2008 9:50AM
Subject: Firefox 3 zoom tool
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Hi all,
I'm playing around with Firefox 3 over the last week and it is a great
update; particularly with speed.
I just wanted to get some opinions on the Zoom tool they've added; do
you think this is a good or bad step for accessibility? The only
problem I can really see is the horizontal scollbar it produces as
soon as your content is wider than the page; which for the sort of
people that may be short sighted and need 800 x 600 resolutions in the
first place, this may be a pain.
The other issues may be that it encourages people to stop using
scaleable fonts. If the two major browsers support this and it becomes
standard in the near future; can we do away with them altogether?!
Would like to hear anyone's thoughts on this.
Cheers
Paul
From: Austin, Darrel
Date: Wed, Jul 02 2008 4:00PM
Subject: Re: Firefox 3 zoom tool
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> I just wanted to get some opinions on the Zoom tool they've added; do
> you think this is a good or bad step for accessibility?
Since it's an option to the alternative text resizing, I'm OK with it.
I know some people like it, other's don't (I don't).
> The other issues may be that it encourages people to stop using
> scaleable fonts.
Or, rather, they might not think to check for that in their site
designs/layouts. But we have that problem now, and I can't really blame
Firefox for bad web developers.
-Darrel