- From: Peter Verhoeven <pav@oce.nl>
- Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:07:54 +0200
- To: "Phill Jenkins" <pjenkins@us.ibm.com>, w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org
Hi Phill, The problem with Opera is, that it does not support MSAA and all screen reader and screen magnifier software highly is based on that. I use a screen magnifier, but by magnifying the font becomes not bolder. the quality of the font is much better for me if I make it larger and if it is always the same size. The majority of the people with vision loss do not use a screen magnifier and can be helped with options in the browser. Most problems on web pages can also not be solved by simply using Opera! Regards Peter Verhoeven At 09:47 23-04-2002 -0400, Phill Jenkins wrote: > >I use a screen magnifier and set font size in > > Internet Explorer to medium. A lot of people > > with vision loss set it to Largest and always > > use their own font. > >If they are using a screen magnifier, they should not be changing the >fonts, the magnifier does a much better job than the browser. The Opera >browser does a better job than IE in using larger fonts. It's not a >problem with the content, its a problem with the browser and/or magnifier. >Relative fonts only helps browsers than currently do a poor job, hence the >priority 2 for content authors. It should be a lot more productive to fix >a handful of browsers than billions of pages. What's the problem with >using the free Opera? > >Send the problem to the UA group, not WCAG. > >Regards, >Phill Jenkins >IBM Research Division - Accessibility Center >11501 Burnet Rd, Austin TX 78758 http://www.ibm.com/able
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