fixed width Vs relative sizing

From: Anthony Quinn <anthony@frontend.com> Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:55:42 -0000 To: "WAI Mailing list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org> Message-ID: <NDBBLLFMJKDHOKHGOBIMGEBJCOAA.anthony@frontend.com> · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.2.0+W3C-0.50 : Monday, 7 December 2009 18:14:10 GMT

Hi All,

I'm new to this group and was wondering if anyone can explain (in non
technical lingo please) why fixed width sizing of web pages is a bad thing
for accessibility.

thanks in advance,

Anthony

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