Agreed. Explicit font-size adjustment on screen is best. I had to set it
manually for my parents, and while the percentage of people over 65 becoming
more and more savvy is increasing at an amazing rate - hidden functions like
adjusting text size is something that escapes them (that is - the people
over 60 that I have personally tested on web apps).

-w

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Dan Saffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> On Jun 4, 2008, at 5:59 AM, G.Jason Head wrote:
>
>   In this day and age, I would that most people who need to
>> increase their font sizes in their web browser already know how to do
>> it. Even more, they probably have increased their font size long
>> before they got to your web site anyway.
>>
>
> Unlikely. The people who most need to increase font size are people 65+,
> which is the group least-likely to be skilled enough to have adjusted
> settings (which is already a minority of people).
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