I haven't been totally following this thread, but.... My 15 yo son has low vision. It has come on very recently (last 6 months), He is 20/200 corrected. We have discovered the zoom feature on the old version of Mac OSx... he prefers it much more than enlarging text. We have played with some of the accessibility features on the the PC and they don't work for him. He has his own pc laptop and and hasn't been on it in months, he prefers to use my mac after I go to bed. The left right scroll and design in general becomes irrelevant in these situations. He wants to do what everyone else does and doesn't really care about scrolling to do it.
His issues have affected how I feel as a developer. It really does boil down to usability. We are going to get some more testing and in depth help the 25th of this month (for any who are wondering). I am sure I will learn about all the things they have to offer him beyond zooming on a mac but for now this is working for us. -Trisha in Tulsa -----Original Message----- From: Al Sparber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 7/3/2008 2:41 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: Re: [WSG] Browsers and Zooming 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 ;-) ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
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