I wonder what a partially sighted user would thing of these
'improvements'. Would they be glad that now they can see images a little
easier and the layout seems to break less or would they be annoyed at the
sudden appearance of a horizontal scrollbar?

I think web developers have an irrational fear of scrollbars :-) They are tools to scroll a window, not signs of bad design. I have never encountered a friend, family member or other "civilian" who has a problem scrolling in either direction if necessary.

For folks who need to increase the text size for a specific page (perhaps because the designer set microscopic font-sizes) a true zoom, rather than a text resize, preserves the line-length proportions in a fixed-width layout.


Or would they be using screen magnification software anyway, and it
wouldn't make a difference to them?

Probably not.

There are far more important issues to get bogged down in ;-)

--
Al Sparber - PVII
http://www.projectseven.com
Fully Automated Menu Systems | Galleries | Widgets
http://www.projectseven.com/go/Elevators




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