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From: Rick
Date: Sat, Mar 25 2006 5:40AM
Subject: Public Computers (WAS Apache Authentication)
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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
From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Sat, Mar 25 2006 5:50AM
Subject: Re: Public Computers (WAS Apache Authentication)
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Rick wrote:
> But they can only do that if they own or control the computer -- at
> home, or at work if they are allowed to.
Ah, I was waiting for that counter-argument :)
> I don't have statistics for the number or proportion of people who
> rely on public machines (eg: in libraries, community centres,
> Internet caf
From: Jukka K. Korpela
Date: Sat, Mar 25 2006 7:00AM
Subject: Re: Public Computers (WAS Apache Authentication)
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On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
> The most sustainable solution for this situation would, in my opinion, be to
> make providers of public machines (libraries etc) aware that, in order to
> provide the same quality of service to a greater number of users (including
> those with low vision, "silver surfers", etc), they should provide the
> ability to change these settings and have staff available to assist these
> users if needed.
Indeed - and have clearly written instructions too. That would help _many_
people. Unfortunately, public institutions may now even disable the font
size changing tools of Internet Explorer! The answer is _not_ that we
should put size changing widgets on our web pages; we would address just a
small part of the problem, and we could even become part of it, since the
clueless could then say that "all pages" contain size controls so that
browsers can be procrustinated!
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Jukka "Yucca" Korpela, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Sat, Mar 25 2006 7:20AM
Subject: Re: Public Computers (WAS Apache Authentication)
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Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
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> Indeed - and have clearly written instructions too. That would help
> _many_ people. Unfortunately, public institutions may now even disable
> the font size changing tools of Internet Explorer!
Then they need to be lobbied (not just by disability rights groups, but
what they may class as "normal" users).
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Patrick H. Lauke
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