Re: text size increasing

Gregg Vanderheiden wrote:

>I don't think we want to say that it should be bold.. since that is an
>attribute that may already be there for some text and has meaning.
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>What we want to say is that the 'stroke width' of the characters should also
>increase. Not just the size.  
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Yes, it' just what I meant. I hadn't the right word for it... ;-) 
'stroke width' is perfect.

>This usually happens automatically as you get
>larger - but the font you use can affect how soon this happens.  Use a font
>with a natural stroke width that is a bit thicker.  (too thick by the way is
>also not good). 
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Maybe. Anyway, the designer and also the user aren't aware of this 
practice. So I think it's good to explicitate it, 'cause it's very easy 
to accomplish.
I also think that we should refer to the worst situation permised by 
user agent. By now, it's Explorer for Windows at "Very big" text size, 
in the future it may be another one.

Bye

Maurizio


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>Gregg
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>Gregg C Vanderheiden Ph.D. 
>Professor - Ind. Engr. & BioMed Engr.
>Director - Trace R & D Center 
>University of Wisconsin-Madison 
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org [mailto:w3c-wai-gl-request@w3.org] On Behalf
>Of Maurizio Boscarol
>Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:14 AM
>To: W3C WAI
>Subject: text size increasing
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>Another issue:
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>In redoing my site, some months ago, a low-vision user told me that my 
>text were not accessible for him. Why not, i asked: after all you can 
>increase text even in explorer, and I tested all the color contrast with 
>w3c suggested formulas through Juicy Studio blessed tool.
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>Well, what was up?
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>A simple thing. When increased at maximum size explorer could do ("very 
>big" in text size pulldown menu), the text simply didn't become "fat" 
>enough. The lines of some text remained of 1 px. But, after struggling 
>myself to find what user needed (he wasn't able to explain me) I had an 
>insight. The text should become "bold" when increased at maximum level 
>explorer allows (that is the worst condition today). Every line in the 
>text should be at least of 2 pixel.
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>This is very important for low-vision user, because it increases also 
>the contrast. The letters are easier to perceive. But they simply aren't 
>aware of that, they can't tell us. They only know if the text is ok or 
>not. After I increased the default size of my text via css (just a 3% 
>more in my case) - so that every text became bolder when size  increased 
>at maximum size in explorer/windows - the user told me "It's ok, now".
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>So I think this rule can be interesting for discussing in the working 
>group, that eventually can reformulate it in a better english and use it 
>in technique documents.
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>I hope this may help.
>
>Maurizio Boscarol
>http://www.usabile.it/
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Received on Saturday, 19 June 2004 10:06:21 UTC