Sent by Brendan McGuigan on 20 November 2003 14:02
Reading your comments on this has provided me with much food for
thought, Felix, but I do have one primary concern with your entire line
of reasoning.
Namely, where exactly do you draw the line between acceptable design
decisions and necessarily leaving everything up to the user? There are
many things aside from font-size that determine readability on a screen,
the most important to me being contrast. I personally find it much
easier to read black text on a white background than anything else, but
obviously this high-legibility is sacrificed by nearly all designers
when creating their sites (I notice your page uses a blue font which
actually makes the slightly-different-blue links much less
distinguishable for me). Fonts themselves are also a huge accessibility
issue, if we're talking about readability--I find Comic Sans to be the
most difficult to read fonts of the basic font set. Even with my
vision, which is average, I often find myself leaning closer to read
things written in Comic Sans. I'm not attacking your choices on your
page in any way, my own pages are much less legible, but I do want to
provide a context for my general query:
How is over-riding /any/ user-defined aspect of a page that affects
legibility valid under the view you seem to be espousing? At least with
font size I have a rather painless method of correcting fonts that are
too small for me (and it does happen fairly often), by simply scrolling
my mouse-wheel. To override text/background colors I find difficult to
read, I am forced to actually create a user-defined style-sheet.
This message is not intended to be at all confrontational or attacking,
I am genuinely curious your motivation behind seemingly choosing one
aspect of usability to champion above all others, when there are many
more that seem to me to be a greater inconvenience to over-ride as a
user.
As far as what Jesus would use as far as markup, I will have to think on
that for a bit.
Your Brother in Christ,
Brendan McGuigan
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