When it comes to font-sizes I'd really like to blame the browsers. I don't think it's up to us to provide tools for enlarging or shrinking fonts, just like it's not up to newspapers to provide a spyglass with every paper. Both Windows and MacOS are shipped with different tools to help people with special needs. Among those tools there's a zoom-tool. In addition browsers like Opera also has a zoom-tool and as I've heard IE7 will also come with a zoom-tool. The problem with IE6 and FireFox is that the function to increase or decrease font-size is "well hidden" and they are also very easy for users to change without themselves knowing it.
My argument:
Newspapers comes out with fixed font-size, but people who's got low vision may very easily use a spyglass to read easier. People in need of a spyglass gets themselves one. The same thing applies to web and computers, it's just that not all people are aware of the invention of digital spyglasses. Solution: Spread the word of this invention.
I'm of course also willing to listen to your arguments, you might have thought of something I've never thought of!
Best regards
Vincent
On 2/18/06,
Designer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Bert Doorn wrote:
> I sense an utterly erroneous presumpton that the designer knows best
> what suits people they have never met.
Bert - Isn't that what all good 'designers' do? The 'consumers' then
decide if they like the design and whether they want it or not. There
is little point in anyone paying for a 'designer' if they are going to
do it themselves!
Maybe 'provider' is a better term than designer. Or Georg's term : 'Web
carpenter' is more to the point here.
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Best Regards,
Bob McClelland
Cornwall (UK)
www.gwelanmor-internet.co.uk
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