fixed width Vs relative sizing

• From: Anthony Quinn <anthony@frontend.com>
• Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 09:55:42 -0000
• To: "WAI Mailing list" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <NDBBLLFMJKDHOKHGOBIMGEBJCOAA.anthony@frontend.com>

Hi All,

I'm new to this group and was wondering if anyone can explain (in non
technical lingo please) why fixed width sizing of web pages is a bad thing
for accessibility.

thanks in advance,

Anthony

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