Tom Livingston wrote:
I guess where I am going with this is that, IMO, no one here is
wrong. The _vast_ majority of users are going to see the site as
intended, and those who are not happy with the text size have the
ability to change it to suit them. If a user needs larger type due to
low vision, etc., they already know how to fix it.
I agree with that (except that many users who need larger type don't
really know how to fix it).
However, pages/sites must still work well if/when users override
font-sizes (or use other available options). Many sites are failing on
that point, and becomes messy and even unnavigable.
The <em>scaled</em> font alone doesn't automatically solve that, and
some <em>scaled</em> layouts are even counter-productive.
Web designs should be tested a bit more, so they are better *prepared*
for a wide range of ordinary user-options. No sites/designs/designers
can loose by simply being prepared to survive.
It is also much easier to inform our visitors how they can fix things at
their end, if it actually works.
regards
Georg
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