> -----Original Message----- > From: Rimantas Liubertas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 8 January 2005 10:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [WSG] G* addressing standards > > So what exactly makes you think those users will: > > a) know hot to change font size
We have to make it as easy as possible and give them all the options. If a user knows that they can change the font-size with the browser, let them do it - don't stop them from doing it by using pixels. I agree - not all users know how to change it. So why not make it even easier: add "reduce/enlarge font" links at the top of your page. > b) want to change font-size Not all users with visual disabilities use a screen reader. Some may only require a larger font size or a different font colour. Others use screen readers in combination with enlarged fonts. A user I tested once insisted on having 14 pt font-size in blue colour on white background. The problem was that his visual disability made it very hard for him to read font that was black or smaller than 14 pt. Here's another group: older people with reduced eyesight. > If b) happens, that means something is already broken - no matter can > user actually change the setting or not. Not necessarily broken: I really would not want to design all my websites in 14 pt and blue colour, but I have to give the user the option to change it to their personal preference. > But there we go into the domain "what the user wants" and that is > not so simple. I agree - you cannot immediately fulfil all the wishes that are out there. That's why we should give them the option to create their own little world. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
