RE: UKNM: Font sizes in CSS/HTML

[Matthew Turvey]

Hmmm.... this "elegant" approach assumes that visually impaired users can

read the site at it's default font size so that they can find the "little

[sic] tool" and change the font size (doh!)


The functionality is already there in the browser, in the same place, works

in the same way, for (nearly) every site you use. Disabling this (web-wide)

functionality and replacing it with your own (site-wide) functionality is,

erm, misguided.


"Users spend most of their time on other sites... [so] prefer your site to

work the same way. [The] "Back" button and bookmarks... work well because

they have been removed from the domain of the site and thus work the same

everywhere (except for those sites that cluelessly break the standards)."

http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20000723.html


Why make things "a little more difficult" (for the user)? Just design to

allow *standard* font resizing in the first place.


Regards,

Matt


> -----Original Message-----

> > web users should be able to set the font size that suits their

> screen and

> > vision (some people *need* very large fonts), and if you set

> pixel sizes,

> > they can't control how they're viewed.


> And it is possible to allow for users' requirements

> of larger type whilst still using CSS in this way -

> just a little more difficult.  The most elegant thing

> I've seen in some time is what they're using on the

> Forums at www.ecompany.com - a little tool which

> changes the CSS of the current page to larger or

> smaller type, and then stays with it until you ask

> it otherwise.



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