Quoting Rick Lecoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
In a thread on the CSS-Discuss list ('Accessibility + font sizing')
David posted the following:
If accessibility is important, don't specify a font size. Leave it up to
the visitor to be using the font size they find preferable.
This revisits a question that still really vexes me [1]. Certainly, if
the focus of the site is maximum accessibility (example: a that site
deals with disability issues) then David's advice is clearly correct,
and it could be argued that it is correct for *any* site.
What usually gets me with this conversation is: assuming users
actually do actively change their font size to their preferred one,
they'll still be visiting sites other than yours. If they indeed found
that the majority of other sites out there have undersized the text,
they would then have set the default sizes to be bigger on their
browser. What happens then if your "correct" site is displayed on
their browser? Would it not be overcompensating then? The principle is
sound, but in practice it doesn't take into account the fact that the
oh so hard done by users would already have coping strategies /
settings in place to deal with their general web browsing, which could
go counter to the assumed "they'll have it set to their preferred
size" (since, assuming that they did set the size, it wouldn't be
"preferred", but "enlarged" to compensate for small font sizes
generally employed).
P
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