RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Collins
I think it's still necessary... These articles sum it up well. http://zomigi.com/blog/why-browser-zoom-shouldnt-kill-flexible-layouts/ http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200906/page_zoom_does_not_mean_the_end_of_flexibility/ From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org

Re: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, James Jeffery wrote: Zooming is present on the majority of modern browsers, so where does this leave elastic layouts, and em's? Should we still develop sites that grow should the user want to increase the text size? Even though it's the lower browsers that do that?

RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Scott Andrews
Please remove me from these emails. From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Paul Collins Sent: 18 August 2009 11:21 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility? I think it's still necessary

RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Scott Andrews
Dont just auto mail me back. Actually delete me From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Scott Andrews Sent: 18 August 2009 11:30 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility? Please remove me from

RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread cfaj
August 2009 11:21 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility? I think it's still necessary... These articles sum it up well. http://zomigi.com/blog/why-browser-zoom-shouldnt-kill-flexible-layouts/ http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive

RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Foskett, Mike
Remember device independence? So it's still important to design for large font-sizes. I believe i read somewhere that the WCAG 2 guidelines recommends up to 200% font scaling. That's Ctrl+ six times in Firefox. From a personal perspective. I need to have larger text to read articles and it

RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
Andrews Sent: 18 August 2009 11:30 To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility? Please remove me from these emails. From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Paul Collins Sent: 18 August 2009 11:21

Re: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Andrew Maben
Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm How hard can that be? On Aug 18, 2009, at 6:37 AM, Scott Andrews wrote: Dont just auto mail me back. Actually delete me *** List Guidelines:

RE: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Paul Collins
At least he didn't call us fucktards, like the last bloke :) From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Maben Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2009 12:02 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] How Important

Re: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Chris Price
Foskett, Mike wrote: I need to have larger text to read articles and it annoys me when the whole page zooms and goes horizontally off the page. It just goes to show that you can't rely on technology to fix all the issues. You need an accessibility mindset to cover all the angles.

Re: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Felix Miata
On 2009/08/18 11:07 (GMT+0100) James Jeffery composed: Zooming is present on the majority of modern browsers, so where does this leave elastic layouts, and em's? Should we still develop sites that grow should the user want to increase the text size? Even though it's the lower browsers that do

Re: [WSG] How Important Is Web Accessibility?

2009-08-18 Thread Dennis Lapcewich
For some of us, web accessibility is the law. More importantly, it's the right thing to do. *** List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: