On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:13:45 -0400 Felix Miata increased personal carbon footprint by exciting electrons the world over with these memorable words:
> On 2008/09/12 08:41 (GMT+1200) Michael Adams composed: > > > On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:12:01 -0400 > > > David Laakso increased personal carbon footprint by exciting > > electrons the world over with these memorable words: > > >> Michael Adams wrote: > > >> > Does anyone have a good article, and/or a reference to WCAG, that > >i> > can use to support the idea that default text size should not be > >> > less than the browser default. > > > >> A Dao of Web Design > >> <http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dao> > > > Not sure i can use this one as a reference. It is designed for us to > > read and learn from. Plus it does not conform to 100% body text > > size. > > Would be good if its CSS was consistent with its message. > > >> 100e2r > >> <http://informationarchitects.jp/100e2r/> > > > This is great and has many worthwhile comments > > I thought so too when it was first published, but it later changed its > site styles and no longer practices what it preaches. Several weeks > ago I started a rewrite of it that isn't finished and may never be. > http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/tmp/new100e2r.html > > You might want to look through the following, where you might find a > link to something appropriate to those artists but doesn't use > mousetype to convey an inconsistent message: > > http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/wauth2.html > http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/wauth1.html > http://fm.no-ip.com/auth/refmarks.html > > Among them, http://tobyinkster.co.uk/article/web-fonts/ is my recent > favorite, while http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size ought to be more > authoritative, and http://www.lighthouse.org/accessibility/top-10/ > arguably a good business approach. http://cssliquid.com/ might be > something to point those with an artistic priority to. > These are great and may take me a day or two to work through. I have in this last week come across the idea that the last word on web site design perhaps should be given to the typographer, not the graphics designer. This is probably a concept that you CSS Gurus are familiar with, but it is new to me. It may also be one that i was unknowingly using given that my websites are mainly using WCAG techniques within the markup and CSS (the issue i am raising here is an accessibility one of setting body font at 100% with all other font settings in Ems). It is the graphics designer in us all that want's to reduce the font size because we feel it makes the page look tidier. So the secret now becomes designing the best looking website we can around the 100% font content, which ends up being an exciting challenge in itself. I may post a case study of the reasoning behind the website i am working on as an example as this is what i am writing for the client. Thankfully Eric has allowed this thread to continue to date, it does involve CSS design principles, i hope many CSS designers are gaining something from it. But i do expect it to dry up naturally soon, so please bear with us or ignore the thread if you are not interested. -- Michael All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well - Julian of Norwich 1342 - 1416 ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
