Oh, come on, Fourteen point isn't so big!
Roger Wright ___ "Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil." - J. Paul Getty On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Sean Rector <[email protected]> wrote: > I’m laughing my a$$ off at this. 14-point? You have got to be kidding me! > > > > Sean Rector, MCSE > > > > From: James Rankin [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2011 9:34 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: OT: FontZilla > > > > Wow. The local government here in the UK that I work for, despite being in > the middle of the deepest cuts for two decades, have decided to use our > precious IT resources to.....enforce 14-point Arial as the Outlook font for > all users, just so that partially-sighted people can be sure they can read > our emails. Amazing. I'm pretty sure eye tests and glasses have been > available to all since 1946...yet here we go. > > It gets better, though. They have also decided to change every single > publication and communication that comes out of the council to 14-point > Arial, even to the stage where council tax bills will no longer be able to > display the address correctly in the envelope window. Which means they will > have to shell out for special envelopes right across the board with bigger > windows. Great money-saving sense! > > Rant off.....we all love execs as much as we love users :-) > > -- > "On two occasions...I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr Babbage, if you put into > the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' 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