http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/fuzzy-zoom/ blog.fawny.org Thu, 26 May 2011 13:52:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19896 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/fuzzy-zoom/comment-page-1/#comment-702 Usability benefits of Web accessibility – Le «blog personnel» de Joe Clark Thu, 01 Mar 2007 20:26:49 +0000 http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/11/fuzzy-zoom/#comment-702 [...] Of great interest was the fact that identical font sizes led to different complaints. In the original coding, the font size was deemed too small by some people, but the same font size in standards-compliant coding was deemed too big by some. Perplexing to say the least. Really, we have no viable research on people’s true reactions to Web typography, and absolutely none about low-vision people’s reactions, which are especially influenced by the flatly atrocious type rendering of most screen magnifiers. [...] [...] Of great interest was the fact that identical font sizes led to different complaints. In the original coding, the font size was deemed too small by some people, but the same font size in standards-compliant coding was deemed too big by some. Perplexing to say the least. Really, we have no viable research on people’s true reactions to Web typography, and absolutely none about low-vision people’s reactions, which are especially influenced by the flatly atrocious type rendering of most screen magnifiers. [...]

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