- From: Jean-Marie D'Amour <jmdamour@videotron.ca>
- Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2002 20:29:28 -0400
- To: Sarah.Horton@Dartmouth.EDU (Sarah Horton)
- Cc: w3c-wai-eo@w3.org
Hello Sarah and all, I agree entirely with you about the importance of flexible design for peope with low vision. In your suggestion : >Change window width and screen resolution and observe whether the page >contents remain visible within the width of the browser window without >requiring horizontal scrolling. If not, check the page source for table >attributes and style sheet properties that are defined using absolute units. I just replace "window width and screen resolution" by "window width or screen resolution". Thanks for your contribution. Jean-Marie D'Amour M.Éd. Formateur CAMO pour personnes handicapées www.camo.qc.ca A 11:43 2002-04-12, Sarah Horton a écrit : >Regarding the screen resolution discussion from today, I wanted to clarify >that if a page is designed to be flexible it should collapse and expand to >adjust to the width of the window (or the screen resolution) without >requiring horizontal scrolling. I tested a couple pages that I know are >designed to be flexible in Opera (5.0.485/Mac) and pages reflow, even with >the bookmarks frame open: > >http://www.dartmouth.edu/~access >(This is a work in progress so don't look too closely!) > >You can run into trouble even with flexible layouts, however, when there >are graphics on the page because they force the page to be at least the >width of the graphic (text can reflow nicely but images cannot): > >Layout works okay here: >http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anatomy > >but breaks down here: >http://www.dartmouth.edu/~anatomy/wrist-hand/radiograph/radio1.html > >I think the point about flexible layouts is an essential one, particularly >in the context of resizing (enlarging) text for readability. If enlarging >the font means you wind up having to scroll horizontally to read the page >then you have what I would consider a fatal usability flaw, or a page that >for some is simply not usable. I would like to keep something about this >in the evaluation document because I think it is an important step, but I >am concerned that there is not a resource to point to that describes fixed >versus flexible layouts. > >Current wording: >Set screen resolution to 640 x 480 and observe whether or not this forces >the page into horizontal scrolling. > >Suggested rewording: >Change window width and screen resolution and observe whether the page >contents remain visible within the width of the browser window without >requiring horizontal scrolling. If not, check the page source for table >attributes and style sheet properties that are defined using absolute units. > >It's not great rewording, but at least it gets the issue on the table. Any >other ideas? > >-Sarah Jean-Marie D'Amour M.Éd. Formateur CAMO pour personnes handicapées www.camo.qc.ca
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