sitebasics — Mon, 07 Jul 2003 11:14:06 +0000

If you want to use CSS and make your fonts resizeable, use em instead of pt or px for the font setting. px and pt are persnickety, that way. I had to fiddle with them a bit, to get them to come out the way I want, but it's worth the effort -- accessibility issues are getting big, these days, and in the U.K., anyway, there's legislation mandating accessible sites. Check out diveintoaccessibility.org for more info -- it's also an entertaining read.

Megan — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 13:15:28 +0000

You never know. Some people just like to see larger font sizes, especially those who are past middle age and may have poor short range vision but good long range vision (to drive). Using percentage font sizes is easier than you'd think.

Either that or you could use a style sheet switcher and allow people to change the font sizes that way.

cgchris99 — Thu, 03 Jul 2003 02:08:28 +0000

I give those sizes a try.

On the visually impared....not sure it is about this one.
With my site content, it would be like someone who is visually impared reading about learning to drive a car.

doublehelix — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:46:41 +0000

You should use relative rather than absolute font sizes. Vision-impared people can get screwed up pages otherwise.

I find that bumping the line spacing up to about 120% or 130% helps readability a lot.

necrotic — Wed, 02 Jul 2003 23:18:24 +0000

Well, you should deffinetly set a generic font-family. Times is Serif and Arial is Sans-Serif. I use this usually:font-family: Verdana, Helvetica, Sans Serif' at a size of around 13px or 14px. Its easy to read and looks great.