Re: Need a Mac user to help.

Hi Wayne,

I struggle to visually differentiate fonts (or I’m lazy and prefer different methods, not sure), but I copied this script into the browser console whilst on your page:
https://github.com/derek1906/jFont-Checker/

That meant I could evaluate whether those fonts were present on my system with checkfont("Palantino");

The missing ones for me were:

  *   Bookman,
  *   Garamond,
  *   Palantino.

I’m on a Mac with MS Office installed (which adds a few fonts).

NB: Web fonts are loaded by the page, therefore are present by definition unless you have network issues or some other blocking method.

I noticed that the OpenSans font didn’t load properly, not sure why but it was highlighted as a 400 error when I looked at the network requests.

HTH,

-Alastair


From: Wayne Dick <wayneedick@gmail.com>
Date: Friday, 14 July 2017 at 01:29
To: LVTF - low-vision-a11y <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
Subject: Need a Mac user to help.
Resent-From: LVTF - low-vision-a11y <public-low-vision-a11y-tf@w3.org>
Resent-Date: Friday, 14 July 2017 at 01:29

I started with 15 fonts that were labeled as web safe but found that 2 (Bookman and Palantino) did not work on Windows 10. Could someone test this on the Mac.

http://nosetothepage.org/fontStats/FamilyList.html
Just look at the file. If any just look like your sans-serif default please flag them for me.
Thank You. Wayne

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