Hi Joshua, et al,
Let me put it the other way around: A lot of designers love to use
pixels for font sizing. AFAIK, the only problem with it is that users
can't resize text in IE. If they could, that would be great. With tools
such as this, they can. So what I mean is : should it be that we all
push for a) all browsers to do this, and b) 'advertise' the existence of
such tools as an interim measure, and [most importantly] would it solve
some of our problems?
Thanks,
Bob
Joshua Street wrote:
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 13:34 +0100, designer wrote:
Good afternoon (or whatever),
Does the web accessibility toolbar let me off the hook as far as using
pixels for text sizing in IE is concerned? I have recently got the
excellent WAT from
http://www.nils.org.au/ais/
and it has an excellent zoom facility, like opera. (A great, and very
educational tool anyway).
I ask the question partly tongue-in-cheek, but it does make me wonder if
tools such as this should be the butt of responsibility?
I just wondered, as it does seem to put the pixel argument into a
different perspective.
No rants please: this is intended as an intelligent question, expecting
and wanting the same type of response.
Seeing as you've indicated you don't desire rants, I'll simply suggest
that the assumption the burden of ensuring accessibility falls upon
client-side (third part) utilities is akin to assuming all your
potential viewers have Firefox or Opera.
To extend this one step further, the need for any internal website
search is negated, as, clearly, we may safely assume all users have
installed the Google toolbar (obviously!) and are capable of typing
"site:yoursite.com query" into the field.
I'm pretty sure you know what the answer to your question should be,
seeing as there's no way you can assume that the responsibility falls on
the user -- given the rate of adoption of alternative web browsers as a
precedent. At any rate, all this tool does is render "pixel" sized text
even more irrelevant, as, clearly, it's not being respected anyway. You
can actually improve your control over appearance through using relative
font sizes and appropriate design practises to match this, rather than
trying to force your users/visitors into one particular framework which
then breaks as they attempt to escape it.
Kind Regards,
Joshua Street
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