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Accessibility and font sizing

Sent by Bob Easton on 31 August 2005 11:11


Scott Glasgow wrote:
> ...
> This brings up a question I have been wondering about. What is the 
> consensus
> (if there is a consensus :-) on the best way to provide resizable
> (accessible) text while still permitting reasonably consistent layout
> without torturous CSS? Font-size keywords? Relative sizes? ...

Extreme caution: there be tigers here.

Search the CSS-Discuss archives (1) and you will find numerous flame 
wars on the font sizing issue.  To avoid repeating same, there's a good 
bit of reference material in our WIKI (2)(3).

Several methods of using relative sizes work very well and are described 
at the places mentioned in the WIKI.  One recent technique, which I just 
added to the WIKI (3), is Joe Clark's ZOOM technique which offers 
multiple style sheets and a preferencer setting mechanism (4).

(1) http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=SearchCssDiscussList
(2) http://css-discuss.incutio.com/
(3) http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FontSize
(4) http://www.alistapart.com/articles/lowvision
-- 
Bob Easton
Accessibility Matters: http://access-matters.com

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