- From: Ian B. Jacobs <ij@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 09:00:33 -0400
- To: John Walsh <John.Walsh@nottingham.ac.uk>
- CC: site-comments@w3.org, rigo@w3.org
John Walsh wrote: > > Currently, one of the most annoying inaccessibility trends on the web is the use of CSS to restrict the displayed font size to whatever the page 'designer' deems is appropriate, i.e. by using absolute font sizes. Although it is the case that W3C have been very slow to pick-up on this trend, I am still amazed to find the 'Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) Project' practicing said dumb designers inaccessibility trick! See http://www.w3.org/P3P/ John, Thank you for the comments. I will forward them to the maintainer of that page and request that relative font size units be deployed. - Ian > *********************** > John Walsh > Humanities Technology Officer > Humanities Research Centre > B24, Old Engineering Building > University of Nottingham > University Park > Nottingham NG2 7RD > > Tel: +44 (0)115 9513275 > Fax: +44 (0)115 9514818 -- Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs Tel: +1 718 260-9447
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